Posted on 11/11/2009 2:41:07 PM PST by knighthawk
Asylum Seeker Arrested for Terrorism, US Requests Extradition
ROTTERDAM, 12/11/09 - In an asylum seekers' centre in Dronten, in the province of Flevoland, a suspected Somali terrorist has been arrested at the request of the United States. The 43-year-old man allegedly provided financial and logistic assistance for an Al-Shabaab training camp.
The police arrested the Somali man in the Dronten asylum seekers' centre on Saturday night. The examining magistrate in Rotterdam decided on Tuesday that he would be kept in custody for sixty days in anticipation of the procedure for his extradition to the US, the Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) has reported.
The man has probably been in the Netherlands since the end of 2008, according to the OM. Before that, he lived in Minneapolis in the US. A spokesman for the Dutch intelligence service AIVD stated that the case was based on AIVD information.
The US claims that the asylum seeker financed weapons for terrorists and helped others to travel to Somalia in 2007 and 2008. These people then allegedly joined a training camp run by Al-Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist organisation in the East African country. One of them carried out a suicide attack with a truck full of explosives in October 2008 in the autonomous state of Puntland in the north east of Somalia, the OM reported.
The conservatives (VVD) have asked the Justice and Home Affairs Ministers for an explanation. They want to know whether the man was arrested immediately when information about him became available. The VVD wonders how many foreigners who are suspected of terrorism are in the Netherlands and how many of these suspects have applied for asylum.
Ping
Of course they don’t want to prosecute him.
Lord Zero is going to offer him a job in his cabinet.
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