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<h1 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#260202;">Osama Krayem arrested, also wanted terror suspect Naim al Hamed</span><span style="color:#260202;"><br />
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<h1 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#260202;"> Other suspect arrested, Mohamed Abrini, is tied to Paris attacks that killed 130 people in November<br />
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<p class="zn-body__paragraph"><cite class="el-editorial-source"> </cite>Belgian authorities on Friday arrested Mohamed Abrini, suspected of driving those involved in the Paris terror attacks and of being part of the deadly bombing months later at Brussels airport. Eric Van der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor&#8217;s office, said that Abrini was arrested along with Osama Krayem. Krayem may not be as well known, but he nonetheless may have been a critical figure in both the Paris and Brussels attacks.</p>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">As to Abrini, the 31-year-old Belgian-Moroccan had been among Europe&#8217;s most wanted and was considered &#8220;armed and dangerous.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">His arrest means that Belgian authorities now have at least two people, along with Salah Abdeslam, who have been directly tied to the November 13 attacks in Paris.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">&#8220;For French investigators, this can be very big,&#8221; said CNN&#8217;s Nic Robertson. &#8220;This gives you a much stronger position to be in to get to the truth &#8230; to (track) other terrorists on the run down,&#8221; Robertson said. &#8220;And also to understand precisely what happened in Paris.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">But according to Peter Bergen, a leading terrorism expert and CNN analyst, Abrini&#8217;s arrest also puts pressure on Belgian authorities to find out information quickly.</div>
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<h5 class="image-credit-wrap"><strong><span class="js-caption-wrapper"><span class="cutline js-caption">A handout image released by the Belgian Federal Police on April 7, 2016, shows a suspect wanted in connection with the Brussels attacks of March 22 that killed 32 people.</span><span class="credit">(Photo: Belgian Federal Police)</span></span></strong></h5>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Days after Abdeslam was arrested, terrorists carried out an attack in Brussels that left 32 dead and scores wounded. A senior counterterrorism official has said the 26-year-old was probably going to be part of an attack planned by the same ISIS cell.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">&#8220;Hopefully Belgian counterterrorism officials won&#8217;t make the same mistake they made last time with Abdeslam,&#8221; said Bergen, the vice president of the New America public policy institute. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t ask him about what else was in the pipeline.&#8221;</div>
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<h3>Who is Mohamed Abrini?</h3>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">His arrest means that Belgian authorities now have at least two people, along with Salah Abdeslam, who have been directly tied to the November 13 attacks in Paris.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">&#8220;For French investigators, this can be very big,&#8221; said CNN&#8217;s Nic Robertson. &#8220;This gives you a much stronger position to be in to get to the truth &#8230; to (track) other terrorists on the run down,&#8221; Robertson said. &#8220;And also to understand precisely what happened in Paris.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">But according to Peter Bergen, a leading terrorism expert and CNN analyst, Abrini&#8217;s arrest also puts pressure on Belgian authorities to find out information quickly.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Days after Abdeslam was arrested, terrorists carried out an attack in Brussels that left 32 dead and scores wounded. A senior counterterrorism official has said the 26-year-old was probably going to be part of an attack planned by the same ISIS cell.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">&#8220;Hopefully Belgian counterterrorism officials won&#8217;t make the same mistake they made last time with Abdeslam,&#8221; said Bergen, the vice president of the New America public policy institute. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t ask him about what else was in the pipeline.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">According to a European police cooperative known as ENFAST, video showed Abrini with Abdeslam on November 11, two days before the massacre in the French capital.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The same Renault Clio that Abrini drove was used in those attacks, ENFAST reports. Abdeslam told authorities he drove a car of that same make and model to the Stade de France &#8212; where suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a soccer game &#8212; and abandoned it.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">He then wandered into the subway and allegedly &#8220;contacted one person,&#8221; that being Abrini, CNN&#8217;s French affiliate BFMTV reported.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Abrini has a criminal record of violent theft. He also had a younger brother killed while fighting for ISIS in 2014, and he was in Istanbul, Turkey, briefly last summer and possibly in Syria.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Relatives have insisted Abrini was in Brussels the night of the Paris attacks.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">More than four months later, Belgian state broadcaster VRT reports Abrini was still in the Belgian capital &#8212; playing a hands-on role in the terror attacks there.</div>
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<div class="element-raw appearance-expandable">Police say this image shows a suspect in the March 22 bombings walking from the Brussels Airport.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">He is &#8220;more than likely&#8221; one of three men shown on surveillance video rolling luggage carts through Brussels airport, according to VRT. The two others died in suicide blasts at the airport, while the third walked away.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">On Thursday, Belgian police released a series of surveillance images showing him leaving the airport in Zaventem, then heading west into the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, over the course of two hours following the bombings.</div>
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<h3>Who is Osama Krayem?</h3>
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<h5><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4062" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/160326131458-naim-al-hamed-color-photo-exlarge-169.jpeg" alt="160326131458-naim-al-hamed-color-photo-exlarge-169" width="780" height="438" />Naim al Hamed, also known as Osama Krayem</strong></h5>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The other person arrested, Osama Krayem, may not have gotten as much attention after the Brussels attacks, but that doesn&#8217;t make him any less dangerous.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">That&#8217;s because Krayem is also Naim al Hamed. The 28-year-old was described as &#8220;very dangerous and probably armed&#8221; in a bulletin circulated by French investigators to European security services hours after the Brussels attacks.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">A French source close to the investigation into ISIS&#8217; terror network in France and Belgium disclosed that European security agencies believe Hamed, or Krayem, had an operational role in the Brussels attack.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The French newspaper Le Monde reported last month that his DNA was found at the apartment in Brussels&#8217; Schaerbeek district where the three airport attackers left from the morning of March 22.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Born on New Year&#8217;s Day 1988 in Hama, Syria, he &#8212; like at least two of the Paris attackers &#8212; is thought to have come to Europe, along with hundreds of refugees from war-torn nations, via the Greek island of Leros.</div>
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Key Paris attacks suspect, several others arrested in Belgium
