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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Brussels - taxi driver hero |
Brussels attacks bombers 'forced to leave 2 bombs behind because taxi driver only had room for 3 bags' The men are believed to be Ibrahim El Bakraoui and on-the-run suspect Najim Laachraoui and an unidentified suspect The Brussels airport suicide bombers forced to leave two explosives at home when their taxi arrived to collect them and only had room for three bags. Brahim El Bakraoui, on-the-run suspect Najim Laachraoui, along with an unidentified bomber, reacted angrily when the cab driver told them they would have to leave the suitcases behind, it's reported. The men also wouldn't allow the unwitting driver to load the suitcases - packed with explosives - into the car, according to Belgian media. Police released CCTV images of the men after the devastating attack left 14 people dead and several injured during yesterday morning's rush hour. The driver quickly realised he had been the person to collect the trio from the Schaerbeek district of Brussels and take them to Zaventum airport and called police. He was able to tip officers off about the address where they found chemicals and an Islamic State flag. They also discovered the two abandoned suitcases, one of which contained a nail bomb, according to VTM News . VTM journalist Katrien Saelens said: "The trio searched yesterday morning ordered a large taxi for three persons and five pieces of luggage. "When the taxi arrived, which turned out to be too small for the luggage. "The three men were not at all happy with it." The taxi driver remains under armed guard today as he provides vital evidence to the investigation. Brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui exploded their devices in the a packed departure hall on Tuesday morning. Laachraoui, 24, was reportedly involved in last November’s attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were murdered. All of the men had, most recently, been on the run for almost ten days following a shoot-out in a terrorist hideout in the Belgian capital. Yet they still managed to find another address to stay a couple of miles away, where they stored the explosives and guns used in Tuesday’s attacks. Their brutality led to 34 people being killed and 230 seriously wounded in coordinated atrocities at the airport and a Brussels Metro station. Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, had used a false name to rent a property in Forest, as well as another in nearby Charleroi, which was also used by the Paris terrorists. Brahim, who is also in his 20s, was convicted of firing a Kalashnikov at police in 2010, during an armed raid, but was released from prison after a short sentence. Both brothers were involved in the flourishing arms trade in Brussels, and are known to have supplied weapons to the Paris attackers. "These suspects were well known to police – everything was being done to try and find them, and the hunt for Laachraoui continues," said a Belgian prosecuting source. Bombs in the men’s luggage were packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties in the departure hall. An hour and 11 minutes later, another bomb ripped through an underground Metro train that had stopped in the city’s European Union quarter. At least 20 people were killed and 130 injured, with dozens suffering burns in an explosion that shook buildings at street level. source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ve-7615090 |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
Did taxi dispatcher mix-up limit Brussels bombing? A mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on Tuesday, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered. Citing unidentified sources, DH said Ibrahim El Bakraoui and two other men suspected of carrying out the attack had called for a minivan to take them to Zaventem airport, laden with bags, early on Tuesday from an apartment in the north of the city. When the driver turned up in a saloon, the three found they could not fit all four heavy holdalls into the trunk. They left one behind. Two men blew themselves up in the airport's departure hall and the third ran off, leaving the heaviest explosive device which security services later detonated. After the taxi driver called police to relate the tale, they found a large nail bomb in the apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek and defused it. Police had no comment on the report. "What would have happened if all the explosive devices found in the Schaerbeek search had been taken to Zaventem?" DH asked. (Reporting by Tabe Felix; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Janet Lawrence) source: http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-belgi ... KKCN0WP27C |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
Sounds like they were going for a big one. It's a good job in this instance they sent a smaller car. |
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| Author: | MR T [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
Another reason to get out of the EU....Put the great back in ...Great Britain... |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
captain cab wrote: Did taxi dispatcher mix-up limit Brussels bombing? Of course if this was Carlisle the operator would be investigated by licensing and be dragged over the coals for got getting the correct information from the passenger |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
captain cab wrote: captain cab wrote: Did taxi dispatcher mix-up limit Brussels bombing? Of course if this was Carlisle the operator would be investigated by licensing and be dragged over the coals for got getting the correct information from the passenger God forbid had it been Carlisle airport the one bag would have been more than plenty...it's hardly the Biggest airport in the World. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
bloodnock wrote: captain cab wrote: captain cab wrote: Did taxi dispatcher mix-up limit Brussels bombing? Of course if this was Carlisle the operator would be investigated by licensing and be dragged over the coals for got getting the correct information from the passenger God forbid had it been Carlisle airport the one bag would have been more than plenty...it's hardly the Biggest airport in the World. 
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| Author: | grandad [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
captain cab wrote: bloodnock wrote: God forbid had it been Carlisle airport the one bag would have been more than plenty...it's hardly the Biggest airport in the World. Who would have thought that Carlisle airport was modeled on Heathrow terminal 5. 
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
Err..no.! Welcome to Carlisle airport, Wing walking permitted only below 500ft and then only on the top wing. 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Brussels - taxi driver hero |
stobarts own the gaff now - we'll soon be T5's big brother 
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