Authorities
are tightening security at airports and on the streets of European
cities and in the United States after attacks on the Brussels airport
and subways system that killed at least 31 and injured over 270 others.
(AP)
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How Belgium turned Brussels into a terrorist powder keg
About a dozen years ago I stepped into the Brussels taxi and gave the driver a note with an address on it. He took it silently, set the meter and drove off through the city’s bustling, high-end hotel district. The gleaming steel and glass storefronts for Gucci, Tiffany and Dior soon gave way to grittier streets. I was on a mission to find and photograph a house where a friend’s father, a B-17 pilot, had been hidden by the anti-Nazi underground during World War II. A riveting book about his daring escape from Brussels through France, The Freedom Line, suggested that the neighborhood where he was hidden was populated back then by middle class burghers living in neat rows of pastel colored brickNewsweek
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