It was only a matter of time before acts of terror were committed on Belgian soil. France’s little neighbor has become a hotbed of terrorist conspiracies.Three explosions on Tuesday morning killed more than 20 people at the airport and a busy central Brussels metro station. The nationality of those attackers is unknown but of the eight terrorists who committed the attacks in Paris last year, three have strong links to Belgium.Two of them were French citizens and brothers living (and born) in the Molenbeek suburb in north-west Brussels, a third was a Belgian who left for Syria a year ago. The first brother is called Brahim Abdeslam, who killed himself using an explosive belt in a cafe at the Rue Voltaire. A second brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the plot but has since been released. The third was Salah Abdeslam, 26, who was arrested in Molenbeek after a dramatic shoot-out last week.
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