European Union Interior and Justice Ministers will hold a crisis meeting today in Brussels following the militant attacks that killed 35 people in the Belgian capital. Netherlands, which currently holds the EU rotating presidency, announced this yesterday. The meeting is crucial amid news reports, which reveals that Islamic State has allegedly trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in a series of terrorist attacks. Security officials said, the IS terrorist group has a number of semi-autonomous cells spread across Europe. The warning comes from a number of European and Iraqi intelligence officials, as well as a French lawmaker familiar with jihadi networks.
Meanwhile, Turkey said it had detained and then deported Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of the two suicide bombers at Brussels airport. He accused the Belgian authorities of failing to confirm his links to terror. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said Turkish authorities detained the attacker in June last year in Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border, and then deported the foreign terrorist fighter to the Netherlands at his request. An official informed that Belgian consular authorities were formally notified of his deportation on July 14, 2015, adding that he was then released by the Belgian authorities, without giving a timeframe.
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