On Saturday, Belgium stationed hundreds of troops to stand guard at possible terrorism targets. Belgium's defense minister said it was due to deadly raids on an Islamist cell. He also said that up to 300 soldiers will be stationed outside locations such as the Israeli and U.S embassies, and outside NATO and UN institutions. This level of security will continue until Thursday, when the Nations threat level will be reviewed. The threat level was raised to 3 out of 4 after two police were shot dead by armed Islamist Gunmen. Belgium's defense minister explained that they are guarding a Jewish museum due to an attack it faced last year which resulted in 4 dead. The minister also said that there would be soldiers in Antwerp as it is the second largest city in Belgium and has a large Jewish population.
I am glad that county's are on high security because there has been many tragedy's lately, in which for the most part country's were not prepared. I think that having this level of security will make any planned attack be reconsidered as they will be prepared this time. I hope that there is no attack as any attack would probably have casualties in the outcome for both sides. Lastly I think other countries should be mimicking this level of security, just to be safe
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