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lovuian

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Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:56 AM Mar 2016

Brussels attacks: airport suicide bomber el-Bakraoui 'caught in Turkey last June

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/mar/23/brussels-attacks-police-search-airport-bomb-suspect-live

Turkey said it had deported Ibrahim el-Bakraoui to the Netherlands in the summer of 2015 and had warned Belgium that he was a suspected foreign fighter.

Fallon said:

I saw that report but I honestly think it is far too early to start criticising the Belgian authorities until the investigation is complete, until we know exactly the movements of these particular people.

We know that Daesh [Isis] has an external attack-planning operation that is designed to create mayhem on the streets of western cities. London is not exempt from that.

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