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A CAR exploded into flames at a UK airport today just minutes before a man was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. The drama unfolded as it was revealed police discovered a "suspicious substance" when they arrested five people while targeting a terror cell with alleged links to the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels. The car, believed to be a taxi or a chauffeur-driven vehicle, was outside Manchester Airport's terminal three building this morning when smoke began to billow from under the bonnet. Moments later the vehicle dramatically burst into flames. A shocked witness said: "The driver stopped his...

Police in Belgium are now searching for two terrorist suspects who they believe escaped from Tuesday’s twin attacks in Brussels that killed 31 people and injured 260 after a deeper analysis of subway surveillance videos, local media reported Thursday. Two terrorists killed themselves in a blast at the Brussels Airport and a third perished with his powerful bomb at a subway station an hour later. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which further exposed Europe’s security failings and sparked fresh calls for more cooperation among its disparate intelligence services. Police had already identified a fourth suspect from surveillance videos...

Two days after the attacks in Brussels, and two districts of the Belgian capital have become infamous—even among people who have never visited the city. Molenbeek and Schaerbeek, home to the alleged Paris attackers and the Brussels bombers, are quickly developing a reputation, perhaps exaggerated, as hotbeds of extremism. But what about a place called Forest? It was here, on March 15, that police almost caught Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris attacks, before he was eventually arrested five days later in Molenbeek. Not only was Forest home to Abdeslam, a man who allegedly bears some responsibility for the...

One of the Brussels bombers was arrested in Turkey and deported back to Belgium in June with a warning that he was a militant, it has sensationally been revealed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who yesterday blew himself up at Brussels Airport, was arrested in Gaziantep in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border last summer. Officials said he was deported to Holland before being passed back over to Belgium. The president said Belgian authorities had failed to confirm the suspect's links to terrorism 'despite our warnings that he was a foreign fighter'. The revelation came...

Family, friends and a network of petty criminals, rather than Islamic State (Isis), hid Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Belgian capital Brussels over the course of a four-month international manhunt, French and Belgian officials have said. Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, where 130 were killed in the November 2015 attacks, has said she believed the community of Molenbeek had "undoubtedly protected" Abdeslam. Speaking on French radio, Hidalgo said the investigation into how Abdeslam had evaded police capture, despite an intensive international manhunt, would show "family support networks" and petty criminals had hidden the Belgian national...

Ibrahim El Bakraoui and younger brother Khalid were no strangers to police prior to Tuesday's suicide bombings in Brussels. Both had criminal records long before becoming involved in a terror cell that unleashed carnage in Paris and Brussels. The siblings were identified Wednesday by prosecutors in Belgium who said Ibrahim, 30, detonated a bomb at Brussels Airport while Khalid, 27, blew himself up in the city's subway system. Ibrahim appeared in the center of an airport surveillance image in which the terror suspects are seen pushing carts carrying massive bombs — disguised as suitcases — through the crowded check-in hall....

FULL TITLE: Brussels bombers DID plan to attack nuclear power station as police uncover 12 hours of footage jihadists filmed outside a plant director's home Investigators found 12 hours of footage filmed by the jihadi cell in Brussels It included film of the Belgian nuclear power chief's home in Flanders The ISIS terrorists are believed to have wanted to kidnap him to gain entry It has now emerged the creators of the footage were the Bakraoui brothers The footage was seized following the Paris terror attacks in November The Brussels terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant...

ANKARA Turkish president says Turkey deported suspected attacker involved in Tuesday's Brussels bombings back in June 2015 and warned Belgium he is foreign militant Turkey deported one of the attackers involved in Tuesday’s Brussels explosions back in June 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Addressing a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Turkish capital Ankara Wednesday, Erdogan said Belgium was warned that the attacker captured in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province in 2015 was a foreign militant. "However, despite our warnings that this person is a foreign terrorist fighter, Belgium failed to detect the terrorist...

KILLER KIN Brussels Terrorist Brothers: Why Does Jihad Run In The Family? MIA BLOOM03.24.161:00 AM ET Brussels attack brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui join a long line of terrorist siblings, and they won’t be the last.

The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers? The Bakraouis join a list of brothers involved in nearly every major terror attack on Western soil since three sets of Saudi siblings were among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. For terror groups, brothers can be ideal recruits. They radicalize each other while reinforcing a sense of purpose and ideological calling. They keep watch...

When authorities identified two of the Brussels bombers as Brahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, it underscored what’s become a strangely familiar pattern – brothers working together in the name of terrorism. The Belgian-born men – both believed to have died in Tuesday’s deadly bombings – are the fourth set of brothers who allegedly worked together in some of the most recent and chilling attacks. Less than a week ago, the most wanted suspect in November’s Paris attacks was arrested in a shootout with police in the Belgian capital. Salah Abdeslam was considered a suspect after his older brother, Brahim, blew...

Belgian officials have captured one of the key members of the Islamist terrorist cell responsible for the attacks in Brussels yesterday — and more. Initial reports identify the suspect as the ISIS cell’s master bombmaker Najim Laachraoui, and the two dead suicide bombers as brothers Khalid and Ibrahim el Bakraoui. CBS News issued this special report that identified Laachraoui as the man captured, not just for the Brussels attack but also for his role in the Paris attacks as well: The Washington Post casts some initial doubt on that identification: Authorities captured a suspect linked to the Brussels bloodshed...

Belgian police have released CCTV footage of three men suspected of carrying out the attack on a Brussels airport which left at least 14 dead and injured hundreds of others. It shows three unidentified men pushing trollies with suitcases past Zaventem airport's check-in area, two of whom are wearing a black glove on their left hand. ... The police press office said that it had not intended to immediately release the photo but given that it had been leaked and subsequently widely posted by media they were now confirming that it is authentic. "It is a photo of the suspects,"...

Surveillance cameras captured images of three suspected terrorists in the moments before twin blasts rocked Brussels' Zaventem Airport.The men can be seen pushing baggage carts in the terminal where at least 14 people were killed and dozens were injured in the bombings.Catherine Herridge pointed out on "Outnumbered" that the two men on the left can be seen wearing gloves on one hand.She noted that is often seen in suicide bombings, as gloves can be used to conceal a detonator switch that is attached or taped to an attacker's hand. Read Full Article