Friday, October 14, 2005
Dutch police make terror arrests
BBC NEWS |
"Police in The Netherlands have made seven anti-terror arrests in three cities, as security forces ringed government offices in The Hague.
Six men and a woman were detained in raids in The Hague, Amsterdam and nearby Almere, the national prosecutor's office said.
They include one man recently acquitted of planning terror attacks.
Police did not comment on reports of gunshots in The Hague during Friday's arrest operation.
Riot police moved in to strengthen security at the Binnenhof castle in the city where Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and others have offices."
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price
Washington Post.com | "Sometimes the threats come by e-mail. Other times, warnings show up on Internet chat sites. Occasionally they are short video clips. The latest has a soundtrack of Arabic song and automatic-weapons fire, and a photograph of the intended target -- a Dutch lawmaker, Geert Wilders.
'He is an enemy of Islam and he should be beheaded,' the narrator of one video clip posted on the Internet says in Arabic, against the crackle of gunfire. Behead him, 'and you will earn a place in paradise.'"
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The Van Gogh Murder: Out of Hiding
SPIEGEL ONLINE | "In November, a radical Muslim shot and killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. But the killer's actual target was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali immigrant who moved her way out of the working class and into parliament, while championing the cause of Holland's Muslim women. The uncompromising reform-minded ex-Muslim refuses to be intimidated or to cease with her razor sharp tongue lashings of Islam. "
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Secret service link to film-maker's killing
Belfast Telegraph | "A group linked to the suspected killer of the film-maker and critic of Islam Theo van Gogh had a mole inside the Dutch secret services, a court in Rotterdam heard yesterday.
The trial of a Moroccan-born translator raised new questions about the reach of the networks connected to the suspected murderer of Mr Van Gogh, a descendant of the 19th century painter, who was shot and stabbed as he cycled in Amsterdam. His killing in November last year shocked the Netherlands, sparking a surge of sectarian violence, with arson attacks on mosques, churches and religious schools."
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Under-fire Dutch interior minister to visit disaster-hit Phuket
Channelnewsasia.com | "Dutch Interior Minister Johan Remkes, under fire for being on holiday in Thailand and not visiting Dutch victims of the massive tsunami waves, has announced he is now to visit a team from the Netherlands identifying bodies in Phuket. "
Dutch MP flown to safety after threats
IOL | "Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an associate of murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, has been flown out of the Netherlands for her own safety, the Volkskrant reported on Tuesday.
Hirsi Ali, 35, who is seen as an apostate by many Dutch Muslims, assisted Van Gogh in making his film Submission, which criticises violence against Muslim women in the Netherlands.
According to the Volkskrant, she was flown out of the country from a military airbase on November 10, as Dutch police and secret services were raiding a house in The Hague, where they made arrests in connection with suspected terrorist offences."
Monday, January 03, 2005
Marin's $45 million royal secret
Marin Independent Journal | "Alicia De Bielefeld has lived quietly and anonymously in Fairfax for more than two decades. Throughout the relatively close-knit community it is difficult to find anyone who knows her or, among the few that do, anyone who knows her well.
Her world is about to change.
De Bielefeld, whose half-sister is Beatrix , the queen of the Netherlands, is soon to inherit $45 million from her recently deceased father, Prince Bernhard, a flamboyant and storied royal who cut a wide swath across Europe, leaving in his wake charm, mysteries and rumors."
Dutch discover Vermeer studio in Delft garden
Netscape News | "An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
Ironically, Daan Hartmann had been working in the same studio for over two decades before he made the Vermeer link.
Hartmann started working in the building in 1980 with the late Dutch artist Anton Pieck and another friend. "
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Van dawa tot jihad
"Het tegengaan van de dreiging van de radicale islam vereist de brede inzet van alle bestuursorganen, zowel op internationaal, nationaal als lokaal niveau. Zij moeten daarvoor alle beschikbare instrumenten inzetten, uiteenlopend van het stimuleren van gematigde krachten tot en met het strafrecht wanneer de wet wordt overtreden. Dat schrijft minister Remkes in de brief aan de Tweede Kamer waarmee hij het AIVD-rapport ‘Van dawa tot jihad, de diverse dreigingen van de radicale islam tegen de democratische rechtsorde’ aanbiedt. Volgens Remkes is het voorkomen, isoleren of indammen van radicalisering een belangrijke manier om terrorisme duurzaam te bestrijden. "
aivd.nl - Nota Van dawa tot jihad
