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2008-07-11 In Brussels, Belgium a donor conference for Kosovo saw pledges of a total of 1.2 billion euro.
-- According to Pierre Mirel, European Commission director for Western Balkans

The EU and its member countries pledged a total of 800 million euro and the US 225 million euro. Germany pledged 100 million euro, the UK 28 million pounds sterling, Switzerland 47 million euro, Luxembourg 25.5 million euro, Italy 13 million euro, France 2.3 million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro.

The George Soros Foundation pledged 500 000 euro in aid for the Roma community in Kosovo.
2007-12-21 / 2007-12-22 In Belgium, 14 Islamic extremists are detained who planned to use explosives to free Nizar Trabelsi, an al-Qaeda sympathizer jailed for plotting an attack on Kleine Brogel, a Belgian air base where about 100 United States military personnel are stationed.

On Saturday, Belgian authorities released the 14 suspects because of lack of evidence.
2007-10 In Belgium, Nordin Benallal, a man convicted of several violent crimes, escaped from a high security prison in Ittre, some 20 miles south of Brussels, after a stolen helicopter crash landed inside the jail.
2007-09-27 The EU has appointed Belgian national Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem as counter-terrorism coordinator--and adjusted the job description to limit political head-butting.
2007-04 In Belgium, two men posing as tourists hijacked a helicopter and flew into the yard of a prison near Liège, in the east of the country, to pick up an inmate.
2007-03-23 Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said that the Belgian citizens in Kinshasa are safe even though there are riots in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
2006-12 Belgium PM Guy Verhofstadt attended the inauguration ceremony for Congo's newly elected president Joseph Kabila
2006-09-21 “Islam is in decline, despite its impressive demographic and military surge.”
-- Dr Koenraad Elst, one of Belgium’s best orientalists
2005-02 Following the decision reached in Belgium in November 2004, Israel was involved for the first time in military exercises with NATO, which also included several Arab countries.
2005 A young Belgian woman, who converted to Islam when she married a radical Muslim, blew herself up in Iraq.

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