Brussels attacks a ‘failure’ but Belgium not a ‘failed state’ — PM

The March 22 Islamic State attacks in Brussels signaled a security “failure,” Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel admitted Wednesday, but he rejects the notion that his country was a “failed state.”

“When there is an attack like that of course that’s a failure and nobody can deny this,” he tells reporters in Brussels. But, he adds, “I cannot accept the idea that we’re a failed state.”

AFP

Belgian police and soldiers secure the area outside Zaventem Airport in Brussels, Tuesday, March 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Belgian police and soldiers secure the area outside Zaventem Airport in Brussels, Tuesday, March 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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