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Massive Manhunt For Two Terror Suspects In Belgium; Investigators: Ibrahim El Bakraoui Has Criminal Record; Clinton: "Christmas In The Kremlin" If Trump Prevails; Is Terror The New Normal In Europe? Aired 6-6:30a ET

Aired March 24, 2016 - 06:00   ET

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[06:00:00] ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: -- in hopes, of course, of preventing more attacks. We're also just learning this morning that the attorney for the captured Paris terrorist, Salah Abdeslam, says he is no longer cooperating with authorities and he wants to be extradited to France. All of this as we get terrible new images of the moments after the blasts inside the airport. We have this story covered only the way CNN can. Let's begin with CNN's senior international correspondent, Nima Elbagir. So Nima, now two fugitives that we know of on the run.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Two fugitives. It's unclear to authorities whether that second man picked up on the surveillance images outside the train station, if he is still alive, but he is part of that intensifying manhunt as the raids have continued overnight. Now, I just want to break down really the details of the investigative thread, but I want to warn our viewers, Alisyn, that this is going to be quite difficult to watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just two days after the deadly coordinated attacks on Brussels, investigators are scrambling to piece together the trail of clues on who the terrorists were and whether they have other accomplices. Authorities identifying two out of three suspects caught on airport surveillance cameras before two bombs went off. On the left, Najim Laachroui. Prosecutors say he's a bomb maker whose DNA was found in the home where the devices used in the November Paris attacks were made. Investigators say the man next to him is Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, the second suicide bomber. Last year, he was deported from Turkey to Holland. Turkish officials say he had a criminal record but couldn't determine any links to terrorism. The third man still unidentified and now the most wanted man in all of Europe. Investigators say he dropped off a suitcase full of explosives near the check-in counter and fled. An hour later, a metro station near several European Union facilities also rocked by terror. Investigators have learned that el-Bakraoui's brother, Khalid, detonated that bomb in the second car of a crowded train at rush hour. Before the attacks, Interpol issued a notice connecting him to terrorism, but Belgian authorities say that until now, these Belgian- born brothers had been linked to violent crime, not terror. Khalid was arrested in 2009 for carjacking and sentenced to five years in prison. Ibrahim was sentenced to nine years in prison after shooting at police during a robbery in 2010.