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The Bakraoui brothers: from common crime to Isis: Common criminals who turned to terrorism

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The Bakraoui brothers: from common crime to Isis Wednesday March 23 rd , 2016  at  10:25 AM 1 Share ©AFP Images from Interpol of Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui, the brothers identified as two of the Brussels suicide bombers The brothers identified as two of the Brussels suicide bombers were known to Belgian police for years as street criminals. But Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui moved on to their radar for potential ties to terrorism in the months after the November attacks in Paris. As recently as last week, Belgian media was reporting that police were looking for both men  after a shootout  in the southern Brussels neighbourhood of Forest led to the discovery of a suspected safe house used by Isis operatives. After the Forest shooting, in which three police officers were wounded, Dernière Heure, a Brussels tabloid that has broken several developments in the case, reported that police were hunting the brothers but said they might not have been