Belgian spies could have STOPPED Brussels bombings

Geeky Snowden - branded a traitor in the wake of the Wikileaks scandal - spoke out from a secret hideout in Russia.

He also claimed that Russia warned the USA about the Tsarnev brothers, who were behind the Boston Marathon bombings - but American officials failed to act, according to reports.

Snowden, 32, appeared via video link at a conference hosted by the University of Arizona's College of Behavioural Sciences.It comes less than a week after the horrific attacks in the Belgian capital which claimed the lives of 31 people - including Brit David Dixon.

Suicide bomber brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui were also listed as potential terrorists on US databases.Belgian freelance journalist and filmmaker Faycal Cheffou has been charged with terrorist murder after the atrocity.

Officials in Brussels have been forced to concede mistakes were made, with the Belgian justice and interior ministers admitting they should have acted on Turkey's intelligence.

(dailystar.co.uk)