Here’s what we know so far about the terrorist who tried to blow up a train station yesterday in Belgium.
The jihadi was a 37 year old Moroccan national who had a suitcase bomb, not an explosive belt.
NY TIMES – A man who detonated a suitcase bomb in a failed attack at a busy Brussels train station was a 36-year-old Moroccan who was known to the police but was not wanted on terrorism-related offenses, the Belgian authorities said on Wednesday.
The bomber entered Brussels Central Station at 8:39 p.m. on Tuesday, went downstairs from the main ticket hall and began shouting near a group of passengers, according to Eric Van der Sijpt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office.
The assailant was carrying a suitcase bomb that contained nails and gas bottles, Mr. Van der Sijpt said, and set off a partial and relatively harmless explosion.
He then left the bag behind while he went in pursuit of a station master, Mr. Van der Sijpt said, and it “exploded a second time, more violently.”
After the second explosion, the man went back upstairs, approached a soldier and shouted “God is great” in Arabic. The soldier opened fire, killing him. Initial reports that the man might have been wearing an explosive belt proved to be unfounded.
The jihadi was an ISIS sympathizer and they just found explosive materials at his home:
JUST IN: Belgian prosecutors say search of bomb suspect's home found materials to make explosives, indications of Islamic State sympathies
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 21, 2017
I’m sure ISIS will come out soon, now that they know that this guy was basically an ISIS jihadi, and take credit for the bombing.