(Brussels Times) Belgium hasn’t seen any major terrorist attacks since 2016 and Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) rates the actual terror threat as two out of four — far lower than previously.
Yet this is not to say that the threat has disappeared, with one Arabic studies researcher cautioning that terrorist groups are still active in the country: “You always have to assume that there will be people inspired by terror groups,” said Pieter Van [Ostaeyen] of KU [Leuven] in De Morgen. “The threat level in Belgium remains at two. That means there is always a possibility of new attacks.”
Van [Ostaeyen] manages a database with 2,189 names of Belgian jihadist fighters. But keeping track of the people on file is a complicated affair.
