Just last week the last proponent of military action against Iran in the Dutch government, Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) reversed its position. The party no longer backs military intervention against Iran at this point in time.
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Dutch connection
This was not the first time Europeans were denying the facts and refusing to act on intelligence pointing to the development of a nuclear weapon by an Islamic regime.
Something similar happened when Pakistan intended to build a nuclear weapon.
In fact much of the current mess with Iran has its origins in what happened then.
Here is how that could be:
The new IAEA report mentions that Iran obtained plans for the development of P-1 centrifuges to enrich uranium from a clandestine nuclear supply network in 1987.
That network was headed by Dr.Abdul Qadeer Khan, the director of Pakistan’s atomic project.
Khan stole the blueprints for the development of a Pakistani nuclear bomb in The Netherlands, when he worked as a student at the Urenco plant in Almelo.
However, what few people know is that Khan received help from a Dutchman after he stole Urenco’s nuclear secrets.
That Dutchman was Henk Sleebos, a Dutch engineer and an expert on uranium enrichment and exploding bridge wire detonators (EBW’s): a detonator described for use in a nuclear device.
Sleebos set up a giant network of European companies which illegally provided Khan with al sorts of parts, materials and know-how for the production of a nuclear weapon.
Sleebos also helped Khan in Pakistan with the development of the Pakistani nuclear bomb.
All this happened while the Dutch secret services, and later also the Dutch government, were fully aware of the network and the goal of its activities.
Former CIA agent Richard Farlow, who was in charge of following the covert programs of weapons of mass destruction, told Dutch TV in 2005 that the CIA had been in frequent contact with both the Dutch secret services (BVD and AID) and the Dutch government regarding Sleebos and his network.
He said he had warned the Dutch authorities on numerous occasions.
Farlow was perplexed when he saw that the Dutch- and other European governments did next to nothing to stop the Sleebos network from smuggling nuclear and other parts to Pakistan.
Former IAEA inspector David Albright even called the Dutch help to Pakistan 'critical'.
A few years later Iran obtained Khan’s blue prints.
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A derogatory term for the Dutch is “Swamp Germans”, now revised to “Swamp Nazi’s.”
The commies are correct - a ‘crapitolist’ (Thank you, Paul Shanklin) WILL sell the rope they know will be used to hang them.
makes one wonder about the dutch.
no wonder some of them are emmigrating to australia, canada and the states.
I think it's "comprehend" but we get the idea. Bill Klinton made this same exact mistake with N. Korea in the 1990s. Believing that these countries won't use nuclear weapons requires a schizophrenic mindset. It's pretty hard to believe it's an accident.
I would say the cause is well-placed bribe money and wishful thinking that nukes will only be used as chess piece, never for an actual detonation. There's just too many politicians who are looking out for themselves only. When they're sitting in their retirement homes in the Bahamas, they don't care if their home country burns to the ground.
For some time I’ve suspected those windmills were actually missle silos.
Ahhhh.....the Dutch.....sex, drugs and selling nuclear weapon technology.