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Dutch Struggle to Prevent Terror and Protect Rights
New York Times ^ | December 25, 2005 | ELAINE SCIOLINO

Posted on 12/25/2005 4:29:57 AM PST by infocats

AMSTERDAM - Samir Azzouz is only 19, but for almost three years Dutch authorities have struggled without success to punish him for what they see as plotting terrorism.

Police records show that he was first placed under surveillance in early 2003, when he was in high school, after he was stopped at the Ukrainian border while trying to join Islamic militants in Chechnya.

He was arrested months later in Amsterdam but released in days for lack of evidence. Arrested again in June 2004 on terrorist-related charges, he was convicted only of weapons possession. The police had found an array of materials that could be used to make bombs at his home in Amsterdam, including detonators and a yellow plastic lemon juice bottle, with bits of fertilizer inside, attached to a Christmas tree bulb.

They had also discovered crude hand-drawn sketches of some of the Netherlands' most important symbols of power, including the Parliament, the Amsterdam airport, the Ministry of Defense and the Dutch nuclear reactor, as well as CD's, videos and Internet sites showing how to make explosive devices.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: jihadineurope; netherlands
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably a damned duck!
1 posted on 12/25/2005 4:29:59 AM PST by infocats
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To: ArizonaPatriot

Send some of the Dutch defenders to Sicily, learn about getting rid of undesirables, undetected, from local folks, take knowledge home to the Netherlands, and solve problem. Seriously, change your laws and deport them all. Get rid of them now, before it's too late. Europe, are you listening? This isn't the first time you've experienced moving mass populations somewhere else. At least this time, you could do it more humanely, if need be. Your future masters/murderers are in your midst, like wolves amongst sheep, getting ready to strike. And you sit there hoping they will go away. Solve your problems or sink into dhimmitude, and history.


3 posted on 12/25/2005 4:44:45 AM PST by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: ArizonaPatriot
The UN released a report stating that they think some of Saddam's WMD ended up in the Netherlands.

I think the Capital will have to be attacked before most of our congresscritters get a clue. It's amazing to see all these heads in the sand.

4 posted on 12/25/2005 5:31:44 AM PST by lizma
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To: infocats

Just because they're young is no excuse. Teen age males have committed some of the most mindless crimes imaginable.


5 posted on 12/25/2005 5:59:41 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf. (All religious headdress). The effect will creat a huge domino effect..)
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To: infocats

If he wants to join the islamofacists, drop him off in the boonies of Iran without his passport.


6 posted on 12/25/2005 6:03:06 AM PST by CPOSharky (Taxation WITH representation kinda sucks too.)
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To: infocats
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably a damned duck!

Yep, and I'm all for doing some duck hunting.....The Dutch better learn this real fast and get over themselves. These muslims KNOW that until they blow something up, the police won't do a damned thing. They are all "sitting ducks"....

7 posted on 12/25/2005 6:22:13 AM PST by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my a$$....)
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To: infocats; knighthawk; Incorrigible
The picture accompanying the article:


Marcel Antonisse/Agence France-Presse
Samir Azzouz punched a
photographer in April upon being
released from prison in
Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, after
judges acquitted him of plotting
terrorist attacks. He was arrested
in October on similar charges.

8 posted on 12/25/2005 6:58:04 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: infocats
He should be stripped of his Dutch citizenship and deported, something the Euros never do.

Those idiots know that no matter what they do or say, they will be there tomorrow.

9 posted on 12/25/2005 7:21:32 AM PST by oilfieldtrash
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"Apparently they need to have a massive attack take place before they can get serious about these religious fanatics."

I agree, but then on the other hand, some people just might not be worth blowing up. Germany, Holland, France, Canada comes to mind...


10 posted on 12/25/2005 7:33:54 AM PST by American in Singapore (Liberals: They even lie in their diaries)
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To: Pharmboy

Punching a photog. Hard to take sides in that one.


11 posted on 12/25/2005 7:35:44 AM PST by bigsigh
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To: bigsigh

LOL! Too true...


12 posted on 12/25/2005 8:31:15 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: infocats

Death to terrorists.

Shoot him, and dump him in an unmarked grave in a pigskin shroud, with his a$$ facing the black moon-god rock.


13 posted on 12/25/2005 9:55:53 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Pharmboy

Thanks for the ping, hope you are well.


14 posted on 12/25/2005 1:59:02 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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