Posted on 07/29/2005 1:40:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has charged a Dutch citizen with conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq, the first U.S. criminal case connected to terrorist activities there, the Justice Department said Friday.
Iraqi-born Wasem al Delaema, 32, was arrested in May during a raid on his home in the Dutch city of Amersfoort. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities filed a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington and asked the Dutch government to extradite him for prosecution.
Among the charges is conspiring to kill Americans overseas. U.S. authorities allege al Delaema helped plot attacks near Fallujah in October 2003.
Dutch prosecutors say they seized a videotape showing al Delaema and other masked men describing how they laid mines along a road near Fallujah where a U.S. military convoy was expected to pass.
The tape's Arabic-language commentary said, "These are the explosives. The American vehicles travel over this road. As they approach, we can detonate them with a remote control from a distance of 500 meters, so our people won't be in any danger."
Dutch Justice Ministry spokesman Ivo Hommes said it will be up to the Dutch courts to determine whether al Delaema is extradited to America.
Al Delaema's Dutch attorney, Victor Koppe, denied his client was involved with any attacks.
"He was in Iraq to plan his marriage and was kidnapped by insurgents who thought he was an American spy," Koppe told Dutch television.
It was unclear what would happen to three other Iraqi immigrants detained on the same day as al Delaema. Also seized in the raid were guns, ammunition, telephones and a computer.
If they have this bast$$rd on tape plotting to kill Americans, and Americans were killed in such a fashion while he was there he needs to be prosecuted. If not he should have an accident in Holland, a fatal accident.
Damn!
The Dutch are really catching hell from Americans....
First in Aruba, and now Holland..
The exceedingly "liberal and progressive" Dutch have turned their nation into a "shit magnet"...
Semper Fi
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