By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A week before the Brussels terror attack, the FBI supplied Dutch police with information about two brothers who blew themselves up in the massacre.
Dutch authorities passed on the critical information about Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui to their Belgian counterparts on March 17, the New York Post reports.
“On March 16, the FBI informed Dutch police over the fact that both brothers were sought by Belgian authorities,” Dutch Interior Minister Ard van der Steur wrote after legislators asked about the Brussels residents.
The interior ministers said the FBI warned Dutch officials about Ibrahim’s criminal background” and that Khalad was wanted for “terrorism, extremism and recruitment.”
Although the interior minister said the information was shared with Belgian authorities, police there denied the brothers were part of the conversation.
The missed opportunity has provoked criticism about missteps and missed chances in the days before last week’s Brussels attacks.
