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To: archy
Crosspost: from Tirade against Islam dismays Dutch Muslims

Good God the world is getting small.

To: Guillermo; swarthyguy; FL_engineer; The Great Satan; Sacajaweau; aristeides; okie01; timestax; ...

Other doins in Holland: (reported 9/27 here at FR: thread)


Islamic Calendar for Sept. 2001
Jet hitting lower Manhattan
A calendar which was printed in Egypt and for the month of September shows a crashing passenger plane with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop -- and which was printed in May, a full three months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America -- has caused an uproar in the Dutch town of Almere, Netherlands, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported yesterday.

The calendar was distributed at an Islamic school long before the World Trade Center attacks. Mayor Hans Ouwerkerk, who was alerted to the calendar's existence in the local Islamic school in the town of Almere, immediately notified the Dutch internal security service (BVD) about the strange coincidence. The BVD is reportedly investigating the matter.

"I am supported by Allah, to die for Allah" was quoted on the calendar, the same words reportedly used by an EgyptAir pilot who allegedly crashed a jet in November of 1999.

The Almere Town Council has "urgently advised" the management of the Islamic School Foundation to "cooperate with the Dutch authorities and help determine the calendar's origin."

Deputy Mayor Henk Smeeman said the distribution of such controversial Islamic-extremist fundamentalist propaganda material "cannot be tolerated in Almere. The Town Council is a strong supporter of maintaining good intercultural relationships with one another," he said. Some of the calendar's other illustrations show a stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrator in front of the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem, an Egyptian military assault during the six-day war against Israel, and a futuristic image of a Palestinian "freeing" of Jerusalem.

The head of the Islamic school, Mrs. Dekker, allegedly had a large number of calendars in her possession from the end of May to the beginning of June, well-informed sources informed De Telegraaf. When confronted with the calendar images, she responded in a shocked, startled manner, asking "How did you get this" before shrouding herself in silence when further questioned by journalists.

De Telegraaf also reported today that Dutch authorities abruptly closed the major traffic arteries into Rotterdam and Amsterdam through four river tunnels -- in immediate response to a highly detailed letter to the Dutch news agency ANP that described the exact time (8:10 a.m.) and the colors and types of vehicles that would have been used in a closely timed wave of suicide attacks at the height of rush hour in two of the world's busiest harbor cities.

Dutch police arrested a large number of individuals who had been identified by the anonymous tipster, who also warned that a great many other terrorist attacks would be carried out worldwide. Collapsing these riverine tunnels would have meant the immediate closure of these busy international harbors, seriously disrupting international trade.

Related story: Read Adriana Stuijt's report on terrorist activity in the Netherlands and Belgium.


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Swarthy: does this fit at all?


To: Sacajaweau; aristeides; FL_engineer

I believe this is the second accident - helo crash Dekkers has been in.....Interesting, eh?

Jan 24, 2003

Owner of Florida Aviation School Survives Helicopter Crash; Company Trained Sept. 11 Hijackers
The Associated Press

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A helicopter carrying the owner of a flight school where two of the Sept. 11 hijackers trained crashed into a river Friday, and another pilot rescued him from the sinking aircraft.
Rudi Dekkers, 48, was not seriously hurt, police said.

Dekkers, owner of Huffman Aviation and president of Dekkers Aviation Group, was on his way to work when the helicopter flipped over and plunged into the Caloosahatchee River near downtown Fort Myers at 7:25 a.m., police said.

Dekkers climbed on part of the helicopter before it submerged, and a passing helicopter pilot, 35-year-old Tony Douangdara, spotted the wreck.

Dekkers grabbed the landing runners on Douangdara's helicopter, which pulled him from the river.

Douangdara dropped Dekkers off at a nearby home, and with fuel stinging his skin, Dekkers went into the pool to wash off.

Dekkers was taken to a hospital but his condition was not serious, Fort Myers Police spokeswoman Kara Winton said.

A Huffman Aviation employee said she had talked to Dekkers but declined to comment.

Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, took flight lessons at Huffman Aviation in Venice, 70 miles south of Tampa. They obtained multiengine commercial licenses on Dec. 21, 2000.

Dekkers was charged this month with felony fraud for failing to repay a $200,000 loan. He has denied criminal wrongdoing.

AP-ES-01-24-03 1214EST

This story can be found at: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAMIMDECBD.html


227 posted on 01/31/2003 1:04:38 AM PST by txhurl
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To: txflake
And, before I remove the tinfoil, a funky link from SNIPER to the Palestinians.

As the sniper killings continue, many theories have been put forth. One of the most interesting has been expressed by Dr. Eugene Narrett, an author of a book on the Oslo agreements that were supposed to end the hostilities between the Palestinian Authority and the nation of Israel. He notes that, "Beginning in 1995, during the first Clinton administration, the CIA began training Palestinians as long-distance snipers." "This was typical of the madness of Oslo and it was justified as being part of the 'security arrangements' of the Interim Accords. Ostensibly and for public consumption these US-trained Arab snipers would help prevent infractions of the holy Oslo charade. The far more plausible scenario that they would use their US supplied skills and equipment to murder Israelis and Americans seems to have weighed little with our 'intelligence' officers."

228 posted on 01/31/2003 1:21:38 AM PST by txhurl
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To: txflake
Good God the world is getting small.

Just so. But the activities of terrorists from the Moluccan community in Holland, particularly those from a North Moluccan Muslim background, have been under scrutiny since at least 1977, since the Du Punt train hijacking of that year.

-archy-/-

231 posted on 01/31/2003 7:17:55 AM PST by archy (Remember that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both a cannibal and a vampire.)
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