Sources say Ibrahim El Bakraoui was on US counterterrorism watch list before Paris attacks live Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesdays suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year. The federal prosecutors office said the operation was connected to the arrest in Paris on Thursday of an Islamist convicted in Belgium last year and suspected of plotting a new attack. An astonishing image captured the moment a terrorist detonated a suspected suicide bomb in Brussels central train station. Eyewitness Remy Bonnaffe was walking. This article was written for the Unz Review http I have recently posted a piece in which I tried to debunk a. Nine people in total have been arrested since Thursday in Belgium and two in Germany, as European authorities swoop on Islamic State militants they link both to the Brussels bombings that killed 3. Paris last November that killed 1. Ahead of one of the arrests, heavily armed police and troops with trucks cordoned off an area around a major intersection in the northern Brussels borough of Schaerbeek. Three blasts could be heard, which the local mayor Bernard Clerfayt said were controlled explosions. Belgian public broadcaster RTBF quoted Mr Clerfayt as saying the suspect had been detained after being wounded and that he was linked to Tuesdays suicide bombings in Brussels. Suicide 23 Minutes Over Brussels' title='Suicide 23 Minutes Over Brussels' />Witnesses said police appeared to shoot the man in the leg at a tram stop and that he appeared to have his daughter with him. We heard Dont move. The man was sitting at the bus stop, a bus stop with a glass wall, and we heard a small detonation and a big detonation, said Norman Kabir, 3. Then the police came, took the little girl who was shouting Dad, she seemed terrified and the man got shot in the leg anyway because he was still moving, Kabir told reporters. XJCl876Lk/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Suicide 23 Minutes Over Brussels' title='Suicide 23 Minutes Over Brussels' />Then the police asked him to move his bag. He was lying on the ground, but he did it and pushed the bag and a robot from the mine sweeping brigade arrived. It came, grabbed the bag and took it away, then they took the guy, put him in a car and left. It took 2. 0 seconds. Video showed the man lying on his side, shattered glass from the tram shelter smashed by bullets at his feet. The attacks have raised questions over Europes ability to combat the threat of terrorism. Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of the Brussels suicide bombers, was on a US counterterrorism watch list before the November attacks in Paris and his brother Khalid was put on the list shortly afterward, sources familiar with the matter said. The Belgian federal prosecutors office said six people were held in Brussels on Thursday, of whom three were released and three were remanded in custody facing possible charges. Three others were detained on Friday following the arrest overnight in France of Reda Kriket, a 3. Frenchman sentenced to 1. Igo Samsung Galaxy Tab. Brussels last July as part of an Islamist recruiting network dubbed the Syrian Connection. In Germany, Der Spiegel magazine said German police had arrested two people, one of whom had received phone messages with the name of the metro station bomber and the word fin French for end three minutes before the metro blast. The German interior ministry declined comment. The Brussels attacks came a week after Belgian police killed a militant during a house raid that led them to Salah Abdeslam, the only suspected participant in the Paris attacks to have been captured alive. On Friday prosecutors said Abdeslam had declined to talk about Tuesdays attacks, having declared soon after his capture that he would exercise his right to be silent. Sap Software Full Download Torrent there. Belgian daily De Morgen said investigators had identified a new suspect they believe played a role in the Brussels bombings, 2. Syrian Naim al Hamed. The paper said he was on a list circulated to the security services of other European countries after Tuesdays attacks, and was also suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks. In a sign of fears over the countrys security, Mariah Carey has cancelled her gig in the Belgian capital.