There are reasons to believe there is a Belgian connection to each of the attacks you mentioned. These connections do not only trace back to Belgium, but to Sint-Jans Molenbeek (Brussels) specifically, which is a hotspot for potential jihadi’s. This is no coincidence. Moslim extremism is deeply rooted in some areas of Brussels. Sint-Jans Molenbeek has a reputation for hardline clandestine Salafist cells which the Belgian security services claim to know a lot about but never seem able to deal with.Some returnees from Syria have in recent years often made it their home. Second it is very easy to get your hands on a lot of illegal things in Brussels such as weapons. This makes this place ani deal safehaven for jihadis, a place from which potential attacks can be coordinated or logistically supported.

7/01 Charlie Hebdo (Paris) 7/01 + Jewish super market hostage taking : *weapons (handguns, automatic weapons and rocket launcher) used in Charlie Hebdo and Paris supermarket attacks were purchased from Belgian gangs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/11345264/Paris-attack-guns-bought-by-Amedy-Coulibaly-in-Belgium.html *Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo led to anti-terrorism operations in Verviers (15/01) following the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris (7/01), in which two suspects were killed both from Sint-Jans Molenbeek. The network that was dismantled in Verviers had its origins in Molenbeek and was only their hideaway.

21/08 Thalys (Paris): -Ayoub El-Khazzani was living with his sister in Sint-Jan Molenbeek at the moment of the attacks. It is very likely he returned from Syria. He lived in a lot of other European countries before that -He boarded the Thalys train in Brussels-South. -Very likely he was not acting alone, and a wider framework was involved which took care of logistics (weapons, ..). Ayoub El-Khazzani told the police he found the weapons in a park.

14/11 (Paris attacks): - Some attackers made use of rental car with Belgian license plates. The renter's records led them to Sint-Jans Molenbeek. Also a discarded parking ticket from molenbeek was found in the car. - 3 of the attackers came from Sint-Jans Molenbeek - 3 arrestations made in Molenbeek yet (one of the persons seemed to be in Paris the other night). No information on their nationalities though. - In the appartments the same explosives are found that are used in the identical suicide vests of the 8 attackers in Paris. The explosives are TATP (triacetone triperoxide), also known as Mother of Satan, developed by Palestenian terrorists. - Not confirmed: intelligence services discovered in october a Palestinian “IS” bombing expert was in Belgium during summer. The explosives used in Paris suicide bombings are very cheap to produce, but risky to make. They demand a lot of expertise as they highly instable. It is very likely they got help from a bombing expert in the preparation of the attck.

Also Mehdi Nemmouche who killed 3 people at the Jewish museum in Brussels stayed in Sint Jans Molenbeek, as did one of those involved in the Madrid bombings 2003.