BELGIUM FELL ASLEEP AT THE GUARD POST: Western intelligence services repeatedly warned Belgium of a serious and imminent terror threat. They even gave the intended targets, the airport and the underground system, but Belgian security services failed to take the necessary preventative measures that may have stopped the huge loss of life and injury on 22 March, 2016 in Brussels. As one Israeli counter-terror source said, “they fell asleep on guard duty even after being told the enemy was about to attack them.” Whether the Belgians either did not take the warnings seriously, or they did not know what to do with the intelligence, it does seem, when adding other cases of Belgian dismissal of counter-terror warnings that there is deep rooted problem in that country. Last November’s, 2015 deadly terror outrage in Paris showed that Belgium was the base of the terrorists operations. A top USA counter-terror official travelling in Europe was turned down when he requested to meet his Belgian counterparts. He was told that they were “too busy” investigating the Paris atrocity. This brush-off was one small sign of USA frustration over Belgian handling of their growing Islamic terror threat. This frustration has stretched to Turkey which, last year, deported one of the Paris suicide bombers, Brahim Abdeslam, back to Belgium. He, apparently, slipped off the Belgian security radar, allowing him to travel to France and perpetrate his deadly attack. (INN)