One of the suicide bombers from Tuesday’s attack at the Brussels Airport left a written statement that has been discovered near an apartment where a taxi picked him up, according to the Belgian prosecutor’s office. 
 
 Ibrahim El-Bakraoui, 29, was the man pictured in the center of surveillance footage from the airport before the bombs detonated. He is one of two of the attackers who have been publicly identified. 
 
 The other was his brother, Khalid El-Bakhraoui, who was the subway suicide bomber, officials said. 
 
 Ibrahim El-Bakraoui’s note was described by Belgian prosecutors as being a "testament" and was found on a laptop in a trash can on the same street as the apartment the trio was picked up from earlier that day. 
 
 "The note included mentions of 'being in a rush,' 'no longer knowing what to do,' 'being sought everywhere,' 'no longer being safe,' and that if he takes too much time, he risks finishing his life 'next to him' in a jail cell," the official said. 
 
 It is unclear to whom El-Bakraoui is referring in the note. 
 
 El-Bakraoui’s written statement was found in a trash can outside the apartment building where a taxi driver picked him up, along with two co-conspirators, before taking them to the airport Tuesday morning, prosecutors allege. 
 
 Tuesday's deadly attacks, which left at least 31 victims dead, came days after Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in November's attacks in Paris, was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek. 
 
 One of the two other men pictured with Ibrahim El-Bakraoui died in the attack but has not been identified. The other is believed to have survived and is on the run, officials said. ||||| Belgian prosecutors launched a public appeal Thursday seeking any information on the "man in hat" suspect in the Brussels Airport suicide bombings that killed 16 people. 
 
 Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said authorities were especially interested in any people who might have filmed or photographed the man. 
 
 He was seen at the airport with two suicide bombers before they died in the March 22 attacks. A subsequent explosion at Brussels' Maelbeek subway station killed another 16 people the same morning. 
 
 Photos released by prosecutors showed the "man in hat" leaving the airport on foot, walking to the nearby town of Zaventem and then into Brussels, where all traces of him were reportedly lost. 
 
 The suspect also wore a white jacket but discarded it at some point, prosecutors said. 
 
 The appeal for public assistance more than two weeks after the suicide bombings indicated that investigators have hit a standstill. Three bombers, two at the airport and one in the subway, also died in the attacks, which were claimed by Islamic State. 
 
 According to a video reconstitution of the suspect's itinerary presented to reporters, the man left the Brussels Airport terminal at 7:58 a.m. before two other men he was with in the building exploded suitcases laden with explosives. He passed by a Sheraton hotel, walked through the town of Zaventem, discarded his jacket, and was seen on video footage at Meiser square in northeastern Brussels at 9:42 a.m. 
 
 3 Brussels attackers dead, more sought Interpol photos Clockwise from left: Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui are dead, killed in suicide blasts at the Brussels airport, authorities said. Khalid El Bakraoui, Ibrahim's brother, died in the suicide attack on the Brussels subway a short while later. A third man, the "man in hat" was seen on security video at the airport with the two dead attackers and is being sought by authorities. Clockwise from left: Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui are dead, killed in suicide blasts at the Brussels airport, authorities said. Khalid El Bakraoui, Ibrahim's brother, died in the suicide attack on the Brussels subway a short while later. A third man, the "man in hat" was seen on security video at the airport with the two dead attackers and is being sought by authorities. (Interpol photos) (Interpol photos) 
 
 Eight minutes later, his trail vanishes. 
 
 Belgian authorities are hoping that they or someone finds the discarded light-colored jacket, saying it could yield precious clues. Federal Prosecutor Thierry Werts also said there had been many people around the hotel when the suspect walked by who may now be overseas, and asked for their assistance as well. 
 
 Prosecutors asked "people who might have filmed or taken a photograph of the suspect or think they can provide extra information" to call a special telephone number or to email authorities. 
 
 Earlier Thursday, the lawyer for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam said it will take some weeks before his client can be extradited from Belgium to France. 
 
 Sven Mary spoke after a legal hearing on the Belgian-born French citizen's continuing detention in Belgium. He said the existing "Belgian arrest warrant must be lifted for (Abdeslam's) transfer" to France, in accordance with the extradition request. 
 
 Shrapnel Laurent Dubrule / EPA A piece of steel and a screw recovered from the body of a person injured in the March 22 terrorist attacks, at a hospital in Leuven, Belgium, on March 24, 2016. A piece of steel and a screw recovered from the body of a person injured in the March 22 terrorist attacks, at a hospital in Leuven, Belgium, on March 24, 2016. (Laurent Dubrule / EPA) (Laurent Dubrule / EPA) 
 
 Mary said before Belgian authorities allow Abdeslam to leave they want to question the 26-year-old about another case — a deadly police raid in the Forest neighborhood of Brussels days before his arrest. 
 
 Abdeslam fled to Belgium after the deadly Nov. 13 attacks on Paris and was arrested March 18 after four months on the run. Since his arrest he has been in a prison in the Belgian city of Bruges. 
 
 He faces preliminary terrorism charges in France for the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded. 
 
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 Police released new images Thursday showing the so-called man in white behind the Brussels Airport bombing and appealed for help from the public in tracing his escape from the scene of the attack. 
 
 Prosecutors in Belgium confirmed that the unidentified man was still on the run and said he ditched his light-colored jacket in the minutes after the bombing. 
 
 Sureveillance footage shows new images of the Brussels terror attack suspect. Belgian Police Department 
 
 Surveillance video showed the figure, also dubbed "the man in hat," walking past the nearby Sheraton hotel and an Avis car rental parking lot. He was later seen in the town of Zaventem wearing just a bright shirt with rolled-up sleeves and elbow patches. 
 
 He appears to be walking calmly but at one point breaks into a slow jog. 
 
 Federal prosecutor's spokesman Eric Van der Sypt said that authorities were especially appealing to people who might have filmed or photographed the man, and said the discarded jacket could also yield clues to the March 22 atrocity. 
 
 Earlier video of the suspect at the airport showed him wearing a dark hat and glasses while pushing a luggage cart loaded with a black bag. 
 
 Two other men next to him in that video — Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui — blew themselves up in the attack. Bakraoui’s brother, Khalid, carried out an attack in the Brussels subway on the same day. Thirty-two victims were killed in the bombings. 
 
 Police sources had at one point named the man in the hat and light jacket as Laachraoui, a suspected bomb maker in the November 13 attack in Paris. However, officials later corrected that and said Laachraoui had died in the Brussels attack. 
 
 Earlier Thursday, the lawyer for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam said it will take some weeks before his client can be extradited from Belgium to France. 
 
 Sven Mary spoke after a legal hearing on the Belgian-born French citizen's continuing detention in Belgium. 
 
 Separately, a court in Brussels extended the detention of other suspects linked to the Brussels attacks — Mohamed B., 37, Yassine A., 30, and Aboubaker O., 28. They were arrested March 27.
– One of the two brothers who detonated a suicide bomb in Brussels on Monday was clearly worried about getting caught just prior to the attacks. Authorities revealed a note written by Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, that reads: "Being in a hurry, I don't know what to do, being searched for everywhere, not being safe. If it drags on it could end up with me in a prison cell next to him." The "him" is believed to refer to Salah Abdeslam, the suspected terrorist ringleader arrested last week, reports USA Today. The note was found on a computer that had been dumped into a street trash can outside an apartment building in Brussels, reports ABC News. A taxi driver led police to the building after realizing that he had driven El Bakraoui and two others to the airport on Monday morning. Also on Tuesday, authorities clarified some confusing earlier accounts of the investigation: They now say that Ibrahim El Bakraoui is the man seen in the middle of two others in a surveillance photo from the airport. On the left is a fellow suicide bomber, still unidentified, and on the right is another suspect, clad in white, who remains at large. Some media reports have identified him as Najim Laachraoui, who is suspected of paying a role in the Paris attacks, but authorities have not officially identified Laachraoui as a suspect in Brussels. Ibrahim El Bakraoui's brother, Khalid, 27, meanwhile, is accused of detonating a suicide bomb on the Brussels subway train. In another development, a Turkish official says Ibrahim El Bakraoui was arrested in June at the Turkey-Syria border and deported to the Netherlands. Turkey then warned both the Netherlands and Belgium that he was a "foreign terrorist fighter," reports AP.