In Belgium, police arrested nearly 500 demonstrators Saturday at a peace demonstration outside the NATO headquarters in Brussels. The protest came just days after the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Protest organizers accused NATO of being an instrument of US policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hans Lammerant, anti-NATO campaigner: “The Belgian government was very much against the war, but at the same time we saw a whole US army passing Belgium on their way to Iraq. And the reason why, they said it like 'Yeah, that's NATO. We are in NATO. We have to accept this.’ And for all European countries, you always see these sort of policies, which means that NATO is in a certain sense the limit of your foreign policy, which is, for us, reason enough to question NATO.”

Police used dogs, horses, pepper spray, clubs and water cannon to prevent the protesters from entering the NATO grounds.