Europol: A European FBI? (Europe Update).

Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States and realization that the Al Qaeda movement had developed extensive European operations, some US critics claimed that EU authorities in Brussels had no apparent, organized, coordinated approach to fighting terrorism, particularly at the level of member state police forces. They may have been looking in the wrong place.

"We opened a crisis center here on the evening of the attack and, ever since, have been directing our resources at countering terrorism, along with other forms of organized crime," said Wi