On backdrop of Brussels attacks, Trump assures to set up anti-terror measures

Brussels: Shortly after the Brussels blast, US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he will step up anti-terror measures, including controversial torture methods.

“I would close up our borders to people until we figure out what is going on. Look at Brussels, look at Paris, look at so many cities that were great cities,” Trump said a few hours after news of the attacks.

He said Brussels authorities needed to do everything to get further information from Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was captured by police in Brussels over the weekend.

“Waterboarding would be fine and if they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding. “You have to get the information and you have to get it rapidly,” he was quoted as saying. Trump also called Brussels a total disaster and then said terrorists could be sneaking into the US pretending to be immigrants.

“They could be ISIS; they could be ISIS-related. We just don't learn. We have to be smart in the United States when people come in. We're taking in people without real documentation, we don’t know where they're coming from, we don’t know … who they are.”