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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (8214)	3/12/2004 12:13:24 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

It's getting closer - Terror alert levels raised in Belgium 12 March 2004 BRUSSELS - The Belgian government and the European Union institutions both said on Friday that they have raised their terror alert levels in the wake of the devastating bomb attacks in Madrid. ... Meanwhile, the Belgian government said on Friday that it too had increased security measures in the wake of the Madrid attacks. Interior Minister Patrick Dewael said police protection around Spanish consulates and embassies in Belgium had been stepped up. He also said the security forces had put in place new "visible and hidden" measures to protect ordinary Belgian citizens. Many politicians, security experts and newspaper commentators across Europe said on Thursday that the Madrid attacks could mark the beginning of a new wave of continent-wide terrorist activity. Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt even called on this month's EU summit to set up an Union-wide intelligence agency that could track terror suspects by pooling information from Europe's different national secret services. expatica.com