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　　EU Holds Emergency Security Meeting inBrussels

　　European union   justice and security ministers aremeeting in Brussels Thursday to discuss ways toincrease intelligence and security.

　　Terrorists carried out two bomb attacks in theBelgian capital Tuesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 300 others. Police are searchingfor one additional suspect in the attacks.

　　Officials earlier identified Khalid el-Bakraoui as the attacker in the bombing at the Maelbeekunderground train station. Twenty people were killed in that explosion. Security video showsanother man walking with Bakraoui. Belgian media report that police believe this second mancould also have been involved.

　　El-Bakraoui's brother Ibrahim has been officially identified as one of the two suicide bombers inthe attack on the airport the same day.

　　Media have reported the name of the second airport bomber as Najim Laachraoui. He is abombmaker for Islamic State and considered a main partner in the Paris terror attacks lastNovember.

　　A third man walking with the suicide bombers also appears in airport video. The recordingshows him pushing a cart.

　　The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Brussels attacks, as it did for theParis attacks in November.

　　Police say evidence suggests increasingly closer links between the Brussels and Paris terroriststrikes. The findings are raising questions about weaknesses in intelligence sharing andsecurity cooperation.

　　These questions will be a major part of Thursday's EU meeting.

　　European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spoke to reporters in BrusselsWednesday. He described proposals for tighter border controls and measures to make it moredifficult to get firearms within the EU. "We need to have a union   of security," he said.

　　Visa-free system

　　Europe's visa-free system is also under increasing scrutiny. The system already is under heavypressure from Europe's refugee crisis.

　　Belgian officials are being pressured to explain how a terrorist network was able to plot andcarry out two attacks from Belgium within months.

　　Also, Turkish officials said Wednesday they had caught Ibrahim el Bakraoui in 2013 at theSyrian border. They said they sent him to the Netherlands.

　　Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters: "Despite our warnings that this personwas a foreign terrorist fighter, the Belgian authorities could not identify a link to terrorism."

　　Belgian officials say the el-Bakraoui brothers were mainly known as criminals who spent time inprison.

　　But, EU Commission President Juncker urged people to support Belgium. "Who is at fault in thearea of terrorism?" he asked in an interview. "Let's not start criticizing Belgium. I don't sharethis scorn."

　　Attack 'almost inevitable'

　　Michael Hayden is a former director of the U.S. National Security Agency. He told VOA that theterror in Brussels was "almost inevitable."

　　Hayden said, "If you look at what has happened...the soft targets, the transportation targets,the maximum civilian casualties, (it's) something we could see."

　　Hayden also said it is "certainly not the last" attack Islamic State will carry out. The group has a"network that seems to be active and thriving in the heart of Europe," Hayden added.

　　I'm Caty Weaver.