ISIS bomb maker 'worked at Brussels Airport for FIVE YEARS'

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ISIS bomb maker 'worked at Brussels Airport for FIVE YEARS' before launching suicide attack as it emerges hidden prayer room was found at terminal 'where radicalised staff prayed in secret'

• Najim Laachraoui worked at terminal for five years until 2012, it is claimed
• The suicide bomber was reported to have been employed by a temp agency
• Laachraoui also briefly worked as a cleaner at the European Parliament
• He blew himself up during attacks on the city in March that killed 32 people

An ISIS terrorist who blew himself up at Brussels airport had worked at the terminal for five years before the attack, it has been claimed.

Najim Laachraoui, one of two suicide bombers who targeted the airport on March 22, was already known to have worked at the European Parliament in the city several years ago.

It has now been claimed that the jihadist was working at the terminal through a temp agency for five years until 2012.

A report also claims that a hidden prayer room was found at Brussels Airport shortly before the atrocity, 'where radicalised staff would meet to pray in secret'.

For five years until 2012, Najim Laachraoui 'worked... at Brussels airport', according to Belgian media, which added that he had been recruited by a temp agency

Najim Laachraoui was one of two suicide bombers at Brussels airport in coordinated attacks that also struck a metro station in the city, killing 32 people overall. He is pictured left next to Ibrahim El Bakraoui (centre) who also blew himself up and Mohamed Abrini (right), the so-called 'man in the hat' who has been arrested

Laachraoui, thought to have been the bomb-maker for the terror attacks in Paris last November, launched a suicide attack at Brussels airport on March 22 in coordinated attacks that also struck a metro station in the city, killing 32 people overall.

For five years until 2012, Laachraoui 'worked... at Brussels airport', according to Belgium's VTM reported, adding that he had been recruited by a temp agency.

It did not provide details about the kind of work Laachraoui was to have carried out there, but said that airport staff are usually subject to a security check before being given access badges. There has been no official confirmation of the report.

The report also said a hidden prayer room had been discovered at the terminal shortly before the attacks, 'where radicalised staff would meet to pray in secret'.

The airport shut the prayer room down at the request of police, VTM reported, adding that investigators have since drawn up a list of 'at least 50 radicalised airport employees'.

Traces of Laachraoui's DNA have been found at a Brussels apartment where the suicide belts for the Brussels attacks were made.

The 24-year-old one-time electrical engineering student is also suspected of being the bomb-maker for last November's Paris attacks that left 130 people dead.

Both attacks have been claimed by ISIS.

It had already emerged earlier that Najim Laachraoui also briefly worked as a cleaner at the European Parliament several years ago. Passengers are evacuated from Brussels Airport after the terrorist attack

On April 6, the European Parliament said one of the bombers had held a summer cleaning job at its Brussels headquarters in 2009 and 2010. Speaking to AFP, a source close to the inquiry named that person as Laachraoui.

Belgian prosecutors believe Laachraoui went to Syria in February 2013 where he joined IS. He resurfaced last September, two months before the Paris carnage, when he was stopped by police on the Austria-Hungary border.

He was using the false identity of Soufiane Kayal and was travelling with Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving Paris attacks suspect.

The Brussels bombings were carried out just four days after Abdeslam was arrested in the Belgian capital after a massive manhunt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3551669/ISIS-bomb-maker-worked-Brussels-Airport-FIVE-YEARS-launching-suicide-attack-emerges-hidden-prayer-room-terminal-radicalised-staff-prayed-secret.html

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Not good. I suppose no points earned if we guess the religion of these other fifty "radicalized" employees.

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Alternative headline: Brussels bombing suspect not airport employee for four years prior to attack - no official confirmation of this report