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Why Belgium? Five reasons terrorists struck heart of Europe

By Ray Sanchez, Nima Elbagir and Deborah Feyerick, CNN
Updated 10:01 PM EDT, Sat March 26, 2016
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Police officers take part in an operation in Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek, Brussels, late on March 24, 2016. 
Six people were arrested on March 24, 2016 in a series of police operations in the Belgian capital, the federal prosecutor's office said, two days after jihadist attacks in Brussels left 31 dead. Raids have also taken place in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek where the three airport attackers left from on March 22 morning carrying three explosive-packed suitcases. There have been no arrests in the neighbourhood. / AFP / Belga / NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / Belgium OUT        (Photo credit should read NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images)
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Police officers take part in an operation in Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek, Brussels, late on March 24, 2016. 
Six people were arrested on March 24, 2016 in a series of police operations in the Belgian capital, the federal prosecutor's office said, two days after jihadist attacks in Brussels left 31 dead. Raids have also taken place in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek where the three airport attackers left from on March 22 morning carrying three explosive-packed suitcases. There have been no arrests in the neighbourhood. / AFP / Belga / NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / Belgium OUT        (Photo credit should read NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images)
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This handout photo released on April 7, 2016 by the Belgian federal police at the demand of the Brussels' king prosecutor shows grabs of security footage of the third suspect from the Brussels airport attack on March 22.
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