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Brussels Bomber ID’d as ISIS Prison Guard

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Allegedly guarded foreign hostages.

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One of the Brussels airport bombers has been identified by former ISIS hostages as one of their prison guards, The Guardian reported Friday. According to the British outlet’s sources, four French journalists who’d been kidnapped in Syria by ISIS fighters positively identified suspected suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui as the man known as “Abou Idriss,” who guarded foreign hostages for the extremist militants. Reports on Thursday from Belgian television station VTM also indicated that Laachraoui may have worked at the targeted airport for five years.

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