The Muslim DHC rappers

Dutch Court Sentenced Muslim rappers DHC over threat lyrics (DHC = Den Haag Connection). The rapper where singing they are going to kill representative Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Their lawyer said that they were just exercising their freedom of expression. They even got support from other Dutch people and even a comedian made a song to support them...

They where sentenced to 150 hours of community service...


Read full story with translated lyrics: here (JihadWatch.org)

Viewing Submission Canceled

Citing security concerns, organizers of the Rotterdam Film Festival called off Sunday's screening of the short film Submission made by late Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Read full story: here (Yahoo/AP)

Police on Kazzaa

Dutch Blog GeenStijl got access to confidential files of the military police. It turned out that one of the police officers, involved in a major human trafficking investigation, wanted to download his favorite music tracks and shared his drive with Kazzaa. His shared research files are now in the hands of Dutch blog GeenStijl.nl. They in turn handed them over to the biggest Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. Now all media are reporting it.

After the news went public, the Dutch Justice immediately threatened to sue GeenStijl if they would do any citations out of the 'confidential' files. Because GeenStijl does not want to go to jail, they only told us that the report is 75 pages long and describes an international human trafficking gang in detail. Describes hundreds of recorded phone conversations. Lots of people are being shadowed and SMS traffic is monitored. Also the report contains lists of phone numbers and addresses of suspects and policeman. Even informants are described in the report.

It's not the first incident of this kind, last year the prosecutor Tonino, put his computer on the sidewalk, waiting to be collected by the waste collection. But a taxi driver took it home and gave it to a known crime TV show. The hard disk was full of confidential material. That same week an other blogger hacked the mailbox of Toninio, the blogger was immediately arrested. Over these incidents justice Minister Donner had to answer questions in parliament. Where Donner said, he had send new guidelines to the police. The guidelines described new procedures for computer security. It also explicitly forbid taking confidential material home.

See also:
The Secret Service Mole
The Register - Classified Dutch military documents found on P2P site (external link)
The Register - Prosecutor leaves crime files on dumped PC (external link)

Source: GeenStijl

Radical Islam in the Netherlands

The Jamestown Foundation - Terrorism Monitor of January 13, 2005 has a story on:

Radical Islam in the Netherlands
by Edwin Bakker (Dutch name)

The story describes the "van Dawa tot Jihad" report that the Dutch intelligence service AIVD released last December.

Source: Intel-weblog.nl

Where lives Hirsi Ali?

It should be top secret where Ayaan Hirsi Ali stays. But newspaper Metro writes that it was all over the police scanner in Denhaag. The police says it was a mistake. The KLPD, who organizes the security of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is investigating the matter. But parliamentary member Joost Eerdmans (Lijst Pim Fortuyn) says: "it is a big mistake that regular police officers know the address of her. The head of the police should be informed, but they should not share that information with others, unless it is absolutely necessary". Both Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirsi Ali declined to commend.

Holly cow, on what planet am I? Dork planet?

Source: Metro, d's days (Jan D.)

Donner Lies Again

Justice Minister Donner wrote in a letter to parliament that after the murder on Theo van Gogh, police protection was given to the editorial office of newspaper Metro. Theo van Gogh wrote for the newspaper. But now head editor, Jan Dijkgraaf, of Metro says it is a lie.

Newspaper Metro had long before the murder on Theo van Gogh declared to the police there were dead threats. The police did nothing. Only after the paper published the dead threats in it's paper, the police reacted. They would drive three times an hour past the Metro office.

Metro has arranged security her self. The police never contacted them. The Metro newspaper came also with other disturbing news, see: Where lives Hirsi Ali?

Sources: Blog d's day (Jan Dijkgraaf), fok

Forbidden bumper sticker

Police has finned a handicapped woman for having a sticker on her wheel chair. She received a fine of 45 EURO for incitement.

The text on the sticker: "I put my foot on the gas for my bag". Web log GeenStijl.nl designed the sticker after the robber incident.

See also:
Robber dies
American example (external link, thanks to GeenStijl.nl blog)

It seems that they are only capable and willing to go after handicapped people and victims of crimes. I hope the woman takes the case to court. But again, mainstream media does not cover this... You start to wonder if the role of media in this country, is providing information or controlling it?

Sources: fok, GeenStijl

Race Riots (2)

Last week their where also riots in shopping center Hoog Catharijne (see earlier report: here). Again the riots where on the Thursday evening weekly shopping evening. Police used bats and dogs against the groups of young Moroccan's. The shoppers had to flee the mall and shop owners closed their shops. Their where five arrests.

The police says they do not know what to do: "maybe we should start a dialog with the youth". The local government has asked to organization of Moroccan Mosques to pay attention to the problem.

These incidents do not receive much attention in Dutch main stream media. Hoog catharijne is one of the largest malls of the Netherlands.

Source: Utechts Nieuws Blad

Chatting with terrorists

The 19-year old Jason Walters (American Jihad) a member of the Hofstad terror group was already preparing terror attacks in September 2003. At that time he had already made a hit list: prime minister Balkenende (CDA), Navo secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, ex-liberal leader minister Zalm (VVD), ex-LPF leader Mat Herben (LPF), the direction of the NMO (A Dutch subsidized Muslim broadcasting society), Ayaan Hirsi Ali and other prominent people..

More than a year before the murder on Theo van Gogh, the police raided on 17 October 2003 the house of Jason Walters and confiscated his computer with many chat logs. Jason Walters was arrested on suspicion of terrorist activities, but they could not make the case stick and had to release him.

They have an enormous amount of chats in his justice file. They all look like this chat Jason had on 22.10 September 28, 2003 (Jason is Mujaheed, chat is translate from Dutch):

webamier: "Are you going to run out on your brother?"
Mujaheed: "Hey listen, I will NEVER run out on my brothers for a woman. As I told you I have such high standards for a woman, I will not find them here. I will only marry a woman who wants to come with me, their is no other way."
webamier: "If that's the case, you can better marry their"
mujaheed: "We can't marry there, we are going there to become martyrs and to marry in paradise with 70 nice virgins"
webanier: "There are 72 not 70"

webamier: "It's hard to be steadfast on the way to Allah to die. You know, the pain, and things like that and if I get a punch I already think, please stop, and things like that, but that is nothing compared to Jihad"
mujaheed: "Don't talk so stupid, you did not even had 1 day training. NOW you are soft like a mandarin, but later... So hard wie Kruppstahl"
webamier: "Yet I noticed with you"
mujaheed: "Like what?"
webamier: "You where tough, tougher then last time"
mujaheed: "I only trained for a month"
webamier: "You where just that tough"
mujaheed: "I had finished the basic training. I lost a lot of wait, don't you think? About 25 kg."


Planet Internet news and Nova TV now have access to these chat log file's. The logs make clear how dangerously Jason Walters is. On 10 November, more than a week after the slaughter of van Gogh, police tried to arrest Jason Walters together with Ismail A. in the Antheunisstraat in Den Haag (Laakkwartier). But the initial raid failed and they where arrested at the end of a day long raid that shook the Netherlands. In the initial raid Jason threw hand grenades to the police, the police was unprepared and got hurt. After that, all anti terror units of The Netherlands where send to the Antheunisstraat in Denhaag. It sure looked like as if the police panicked.

Besides that the police could have known of his violent Jihad background, they had over heard a phone conversation Jason Walters made right after the murder of Theo van Gogh in which he said: "We have conform the authentic Islamic way, slaughtered the lam." (See: Murder Trial Theo van Gogh for more).

On September 19, 2003 at 16.08 says "mujaheed" (alias Jason Walters) to "galas03" that he first must install the encryption software. Only after that "we can talk about J. ". "J" is their code for "Jihad". In the chat "galas03" says he is from Egyptian decent. On 16.26 they start their encrypted chat:

Galas03: "Ok say, what's up? Are you going to Afghanistan?"
Mujaheed: "agie, I am just back"
Galas03: "Or do you want to decapitate Balkenende?"
Mujaheed: "Where do you think I was all that time?"
Galas03: "Italy?"
Mujaheed: "Hahahah"
Galas03: "Your joking?"
Mujaheed: "Uhm, I can't say I was to Pakistan to be receive training or can I?"
Galas03: "Get serious! Really?"
Mujaheed: "On Allah, what do you think? I got my basic training their, an I will go back Inshallah, but now I am send back by the people there, Visa problems, but in the time in between I will recruit as many boys I can to send them their inshaAllah"
Galas03: "I am speech less"
Mujaheed: "Do you also want to go?"
Galas03: "I am first going to study in Saudi Arabia, for a walk around the block"
Mujaheed: "Walk? Your crazy eula"
Galas03: "What's the matter? I don't think my parents let me go :s I will go under the cover of study"
Mujaheed: "aha :D but you go for sure agie if needed I take you by ears with me"
Galas03: "but did your parents knew it?"
Mujaheed: "no I was to England, just like I told you Italy"
Galas03: "oh, but I want to go to England, there is abou hamza and people from alqaida"
Mujaheed: "I know, but you don't have any freedom, come with me to pakistan there they will train you, how to use guns, how to make weapons, just everything after that you can return"
Galas03: "can you now handle guns?"
Mujaheed: "and go to england to slaughter blair?"
Mujaheed: "yes agie"
Galas03: "Did you behead a few americans?"
Mujaheed: "seminov, kalshnikov, MMG, zakayev, TT pistol, Makarov, hand grenades en rpg those I all learned."
Galas03: "Wooow"
Mujaheed: "I can assemble and disassemble a kalasnikov blind folded, also a seminov and all the other pistols and rifles"
Galas03: "Is shooting difficult?"
Mujaheed: "No way man, it is not that hard. I even had to roll over with a pistol and then shoot and that went all right, praise allah" Galas03: "How did you go, with Pakistan airlines or something?"
Mujaheed: "yep" (16.40)

In the next part of the chat session, Jason Walters wants permission from Imam Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven. Abdul-Jabbar is a Dutch convert (from real Dutch parents) who is a traveling imam. In a TV shows, right after the murder on Theo van Gogh, he said that he hoped that Geert Wilders would die soon. But he added, that should not be seen as a threat (he got away with it). Again Jason Walters as "Mujaheed":

(16.42)
Galas03: "hey agie can you do something for me, just say it"
Mujaheed: "you have to go to jabbar"
Galas03: "I will see him today InshaAllah at the lesson"
Mujaheed: "Go and ask him if it is here allowed to slaughter the unbelievers and/or to steal their possessions"
Galas03: "He has said about it, see it this way: the government, ministries, police etc., their blood and possessions is halal [we can take], because they openly declared war to the islam, but before you do something you have to think twice about what will happen with the islamic community."
Mujaheed: "OK djazaak Allah. This is the fatwa needed. Now I can slaughter every police, minister, soldier, officer etc. And robe them"
Galas03: "But it is halal and even more clear ke gets rewarded" (unclear Dutch)
Mujaheed: "Robe all banks. Subhaan Allah, halal robbing a bank."
Galas03: "I don't know, aghie"
Mujaheed: "Halal robe the town hall, Allahu Akbar, I have some people of my dead list, they will certainly die :D"
Galas03: "who?"
Mujaheed: "i will first get hassenats for it Aallahu Akbar"
Galas03: ";)"
Mujaheed: "you will soon hear it on the news sahbie"
Galas03: "you terrorist?"
Mujaheed: "what to think of hirsi ali, jaap de hoop scheffer, matt herben, balkenende, zalm and all those fake muslims in the political parties, the directorate of the Dutch Moslim broadcaster"
Galas03: "haha"
Mujaheed: "slaughter them all"
Galas03: "it is an idea an then make a movie. say Bhhhooe and everybody is scared"
Mujaheed: "beheading from the MP on video, that's relaxed :d"

After this chat, "Galas03" has had his meeting with Imam Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven. That same evening on September 19, 2003 they chat again in the chat box at 22.39:

Galas03: "assalamoe aleikoem"
Mujaheed: "wa aleikum salaam we br. agie how was the lesson?"
Galas03: "J" (short for Jihad)
Mujaheed: "Relaxed is it not to talk safely J"
Galas03: "Yessssssssss, jihaad, but ok. I asked about bank. bank is not allowed"
Mujaheed: "As long as my characters are green it is safe, red means unsafe"
Galas03: "because it is not from the ministry"
Mujaheed: "Blue is also safe"
Galas03: "So, I am unsafe?"
Mujaheed: "Thus, only government institutions. Just say green is safe blue=safe"
Galas03: "How?"
Mujaheed: "Red = unsafe"

22.26

Mujaheed: "But tell me, what is all allowed?"
Galas03: "ministries, police, government"
Mujaheed: "military?"
Galas03: "Yep" (Yes)
Mujaheed: "fire-brigade?"
Galas03: "ME" (Riot police)
Mujaheed: "municipality office? aha"
Galos03: "fire-brigade allahoe a3lam"
Mujaheed: "all government institutions"
Galos03: "municipality office I don't know either allHOE A3LAM"
Mujaheed: "municipality office is government on a municipal scale local scale D we are going to loot the financial ministry and your also allowed to fraud and all with taxes"
Galos03: "Yep" (Yes)
Mujaheed: "haha :D right on!"
Galos03: "he told me today something that it is best that you whish hidaya for your enemies. he says he wishes for sharon and bush to become muslim"
Mujaheed: "Yeah, that's right and otherwise just slaughter them L-p"
Galos03: ";)"
Mujaheed: "and hamas?"
Galos03: "he says: 11 - September is ok sheik bin laden is ok Taliban ok and hamas masha Allah they have the honor to fight against the pigs and the apes"
Mujaheed: "d I (L) AjvdV" (???)
Galos03: "J" (Jihad)
Mujaheed: "but does he say to people that when you live here you have to live according to the rules?"
Galos03: "If it is not against islam, yes"
Mujaheed: "some say that if you live here you have to live totally according to the constitution. what does he say"
Galos03: "No only when it is against Islam"
Mujaheed: "I see and what does he say that you should make dahwah and not jihad?"
Galos03: "Thus as the government says to the people no more salaah, that goes to far... Allahoe A3lam is what he says about those people"
Mujaheed: "and as the government says no more jihaad? Is that to much?"
Galos03: "I did not ask, I will ask him tomorrow"


But this is not enough for Jason Walters He wants to hear the imam Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven him self. He visits him on 21 September 2003 in a mosque in the city of Almere. A day later, September 22 15:29, Jason Walters again as "Mujaheed" has the following conversation in the secure chat box, now with an un identified "Khb":

Mujaheed: "Salaam aleikum, agie do you know the name of the young sheich"
Mujaheed: "(O you disbe: wa 3alaykoem asalaam"
Mujaheed: "Who recite the quran"
Khb: "what young sheigh mohammed barak"
Mujaheed: "at islamway.com djazaak Allah"
Khb: "How was your conversation with abdel Jabbar van de Ven"
Mujaheed: "Elhamdulillah [Praise to Allah], very good. He says that the blood and possessions of the government is halal [ours]. We may rob the government, state, army, military police, police and all other government institutions."
Khb: "Are you sure?"
Mujaheed: "Yep 100%, and one other thing"
Khb: "And what authority did he refer to?"
Mujaheed: "There was a man with the name Ibrahim bayrak who spoke as well and the one you say" (unclear dutch)
Khb: "na3am"
Mujaheed: "a ruler who does not use sharia but recognizes the sharia stays a muslim, the same with people who do not pray. But Abd. does not agree and I don't either. He says their are now a days many murjia even with the great authorities. Mirjia is the opposite of takfir"
Khb: "And what does he say about Bin Baaz rahimoeAllah"
Mujaheed: "I did not ask, I did not had that much time"
Khb: "He normally uses his fatwa's as well"
Mujaheed: "He said that authorities who accepted bribes should not be listen too and they are outside the faith"
khb: "Allahoe 'Ehlem. " (15.35)


But Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven says he did only met Jason three times. And that he did not really know him. He declared in a letter to Nova TV that he would not say the things they accuse him of to a stranger. Because he would then, unnecessary harm his family, students and the mosque where he teaches. He would also not say it to his friends, a Moslem is not allowed to create chaos. I am not in a position to give fatwa's on current affairs and I never said I was. He says he received e-mail from the Hofstad group, but that he is a know figure and he does not know them. He knew they existed but that was all.

He also says he remembers a person who could be "Gallas03", a fourteen year old boy who asked radical questions, for that he had send him away.

Yeah right.


See also:
American Jihad (Jason Walters)
Picture during Jason's arrest (ough!) (external link)

Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven publishes on: Imaan, al-islaam
Galas03: Al-Jihaad reaction Marokko comunity forum, Jihad message Islaam-online forum, About unbelieve Islaam-online forum, profile at Islaam-online forum
Sources: Planet Internet, Nova TV, Chat sessions transcript

Movie on Dutch Situation

Little Green Footballs and Peak Talk referred me to this must-see documentary: "The End of the Multicultural Dream". Is is made after the murder of Theo van Gogh by the Danish public broadcasting. It includes interviews with immigrants, "right wing" leaders, mainstream politicians, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders and "common" folks in Holland. Download location it here:

The End of the Multicultural Dream
(English Sub titles available for download)


For people who have not yet seen the movie Submission I, for which Theo van Gogh was murdered you can download here the Xvid decode movie. If you use Bittorrent P2P file sharing you can use the following links to this Xvid decoded file: Bittorrent link (1), Bittorrent link (2), Bittorrent link (3)

Caricature Holland

The Dutch government is worried about the image Holland has on the world stage.

This week there was a world meeting of all Dutch ambassadors and at that meeting foreign affairs minister Bot said that he sees it as his mission to adjust the caricature image Holland has. He pointed to the negative caricature Fox News had made of Holland as a drug using, prostitute, coke sniffing child killing country. The ambassadors need to adjust the image that "the Netherlands has no norms and values" he said.

Later in the week, prime minister Balkenende, said to the Dutch ambassadors: "Holland as a down-to-earth, open and tolerant guide country that has his affairs in order, has an bruised image". All caused by the murder of opposition leader Pim Fortuyn, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the threats against politicians and opinion leaders. But he said: "The Netherlands is not in crisis" and the ambassadors should make that their message.

He also wanted to make clear, that "terrorism is not linked to certain religions or cultures". "There is no rift between Muslims and non-Muslims". Part of the program of the Dutch ambassadors is a visit to a Dutch mosque.

Instead of talking about image, he better works harder on execution. Good execution will brings results and that will give the Netherlands a good image.

Sources: Foreign Affairs Ministry, Speech minister Bot, Speech prime minister Balkenende

Moroccan youth at school

At the schools in Holland there are many problems with Moroccan youth. Most do not finish their school education and there are many stories about violence against teachers. The teachers do not receive any support from their management or the police. Thing is, Dutch schools, are not allowed to remove aggressive students. They can only try to get him on an other school, but other schools are also not waiting for aggressive students. Last year, a student, even shot a teacher through his head, fellow students went on the streets to demonstrate to support the murderer.

Now Dutch language blog GeenStijl offers a real class room recoding, in which a Moroccan student demands respect from his teacher. Click here to see how aggressive he is and how afraid the teacher is. The boy wanted to visit mister Smith, but the teacher does not allow it. The boy then shouts: "get up, get up, ...." and "let's go, let's go,...". They found the video clip on a well known forum Maroc.nl (a subsidized Moroccan website with much antisemitic and anti western postings)

Show Video Clip


Update:
Weblog GeenStijl.nl informs us that the student in the movie is removed from the school by police officers. The name of the school is ROC-Gildevaart in the city of Nieuwegein (near Utrecht). The school says the teacher handled the situation very professional and calm: an example how we like people to handle in incidents like these. They do not want to forbid the use of camera phones in the school. The school sees the movies as an educational tool to start a discussion around the incident.

A ROC school is a practical education that has the lowest standing of all other forms of education. They are the most dangerous schools and in the cities the majority of the students is from immigrant families.

See also:
A city in The Netherlands
Dutch flag prohibited at school
Movie on Dutch situation (downloadable movie)
Download Submission I of Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali

And other good story on Germany can be found at DowneastBlog:
SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK...

Source: Gunzilla

Moroccan parliamentary member

The city of Utrecht has discovered a large scale social security fraud. A man and a woman from Moroccan decent received a social security grant in the year 1992 till 2002. But research of the city of Utrecht found out that the family owned several houses in Morocco. The total worth of the real estate is 400.000. The two also are shareholder in a poultry farm.

And most amazingly, the man is a member of Moroccan parliament, for which he is also paid.

Official Islamic feasts

Under minister Van Gennip of economic affairs says that non Christians should get the day off on their own religious days, like for example the sugar feast. She wants to change the collective employment agreements that the Unions have with the different business branches. She wants that Muslims get the same arrangements that are now made for Christmas and Easter.

She says that this will enhance integration. "That means understanding, respect for each other and that means that anyone can honor his or her believe".

Most people in the Netherlands, don't view Christmas and Eastern as religious holidays. Most people see it as tradition and a nice day off. One starts to wonder, what integration means for these government officials. It seems that they mean, that Dutch society should change to the immigrants norms instead of the other way around. I guess that is why use the word "integration" as a magic spell, instead of saying things like: "integration into Dutch society".

Source: nu.nl

Air force wants Moroccan’s (2)

[This article was published in a local Dutch Newspaper]

'I am not going to shoot other Muslims'

Hanane Abdellaoui (19) steps forward and says: “May I ?”. Corporal Lahsen Tissir (32) lays a Stinger rocket on her shoulder. “Fun”, she says.

Hanane is a guest on the Airbase “De Peel” in Venray. As part of a recruitment campaign under immigrants, the Air force organized a special day for people from Moroccan decent. A remarkable group consisting of younger women and older men. No, not fathers with their daughters.

In the freezing cold they get instructions on rocket systems like the Stinger and Patriot. “Interesting” thinks Najia el-Aldaoui (22). But does she want to join the military? “Mmmm… at least I am not going to shoot any Muslims. But I would like to work on rebuilding Iraq”.

Major Marco Simons, a recruiter for the air force, does not beat about the bush and says: “We are deployed to bring peace and security, but that can lead to armed conflicts. People who want to join, we ask if they want to put their life on the line”.

“Well”, says a father laconically, “if you choose for the army, you know it is not without risk. Remember, many Moroccans died in the Second World War, when we both fought the Nazi’s. A Moroccan cameraman reacts: “As a soldier you fight against injustice. Not against people who are Muslim or not.”

[Note of Dutch Reporter: Morocco was at the time a French colony]

The air force is recruiting immigrants. Last year they had recruitment days for Turks at air force base “Gilze-Rijen” and in the city of Eindhoven for people from the Dutch Antilles. The Moroccans who are invited at air force base in the city of Venray are from the city of Den Bosch. They where initially invited for going to air force base “Volkel”. But due to exercises that was canceled.

At the Air force work 570 immigrant descendants, 4.75 % of the total force. If the air force wants to be a representation of the Dutch society that number has to rise. A Moroccan asks if they are willing to invest in target group? Will they have a holiday during Islamic feasts? Is the food halal? Can they pray five times a day? Can they where a head scarf?

Major Simons explains that they take Muslim wished into account at the preparations of the meals for Muslims. But that does not mean the food is halal. Military personnel gets a day off for each recognized public holiday. Praying in possible, but the air force does not start Mosques, Churches or Synagogues.

About the head scarf he is clear, that is not possible. In the army we have unity of uniform. A head scarf is not a part of it.” Hanane knows enough: “In that case, the air force is nothing for me. I will not remove my head scarf”.

Hassan Tribak (29) has found his dream job at the air force. At Volkel airbase he is crew chief, end responsible for the F16 maintenance. “An interesting job, for which you travel all over the world.” The sergeant feels him self respected as both a Moslem as Moroccan. “Otherwise I would not work here for 10 years.”

The Moroccan fathers see in Tribak and Tisser examples for their children. They point out that Turks and Moroccans receive a lot of negative publicity. “They are unemployed or criminal. But on this way they can have a positive contribution to the country. Because children who are born here see Holland as there motherland, not Morocco.”

If that is so, why they talk about wanted to be respected as a Moroccans?

Why does Dutch government says they want their military to be a representation of society. Are they willing to include thieves, drug addict and a-socials? Shouldn't the military consist of loyal and stable people? They better learn from the experiences of the US army:

Daniel Pipes - Murder in the 101st Airborn (NY post)
FPM - The 'fifth' Colum Syndrome (Washington Times)
NRO - The House that Raised Akbar
FPM - Spies at Guantanamo
(Thanks to Dutch blog Media controlle for refering me to the links)

See also: Air force wants Moroccan’s

Source: Limburger

Murder trial Theo van Gogh

Today was the first pro-forma trial day of Mohammed Bouyeri, the terrorist who slaughtered Theo van Gogh on 2 November. This high profile trial was held in Amsterdam Osdorp in the extra secure court. The trial could be seen on national Television with a half hour delay, to make it possible to sensor privacy sensitive information. But although they tried to censor the name out, the name Bouyeri sometimes still slipped through. It is not clear why they keep this charade, for this already widely known fact.

The seating arrangement in Dutch courts differs from the US court seating arrangement. In The Netherlands the three judges sit in the middle, the prosecutor sits on the right side of the judges and in front of both of them the defendant and his lawyers are seated. In this case the defended did not come to the court. But the family of the slaughtered Theo van Gogh did. His father, his mother and two sisters where sitting at the front row.

This special secure courtroom is often used when high profile cases are broadcasted on national TV. For example the hit man who shot Pim Fortuyn was also tried at this location, in front of live television. But as so often is the case, Dutch government demonstrates that is has no interest in a decent public presentation, it all looked like an amateur trial. The courtroom looked cheap and did not looked like a real courtroom and the public had to sit on all kind of different chairs. And take the appearance of prosecutor Frits van Straelen. When he wanted to start his speeking, he had to place him self a pulpit on his desk, before he could start his speech. Later we would see him fumble with his wireless microphone, he could not get it to work, not even the court assistants knew how it worked. But when he finally managed to get it working, he had to hold the small button microphone in his hand in front of him. Normally such a microphone is not visible when it sit on your suit.

But besides that it looked hilarious, some facts where hilarious too (And I am not refering to the fact that the clerk was a Moroccan). Isn't it hilarious to hear the defense claim that the prosecution only once tried to question Mohammed Bouyeri? Mohammed said right after his arrest, that he did not wanted to talk to the police. And after that, they never bothered to try to question him again…. Hilarious isn’t it? Or should I say disturbing?

More on that issue later. A reporter, who claims to have seen more pro-forma court cases, said this was an unusual trial day. He said that instead of the normal juristic jargon the prosecutor today was mainly speaking to the Dutch public. The prosecutor’s research was weeks ago already published in Dutch newspapers, we published that story: here. In this article only the new facts will get attention.


Most important news

• The assassination was planned; ten witnesses claim they have seen surveillances by the terrorist on different location on van Gogh’s regular route to his office.
• The night before the attack, 1 November, two other members of the Hofstad terror group met Mohammed Bouyeri (Jason W. and Ismael A).
• AIVD taped phone conversations of the, now detained, Hofstad cell members. They recorded them saying: “We have conform the authentic Islamic way, slaughtered the lam. This will be the punishment for each person that will offend Allah or his prophet. O you, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, tomorrow if Allah wants it, it’s your turn.” In the same phone conversation the caller claimed to belong to the group of Mohammed Bouyeri "the brigade of the Islamic Jihad". The phone conversation was made from the address in Den Haag (Antheunisstraat), where a week after the murder Jason W. en Ismail A. where arrested. The AIVD has still 20 hours of tapes, but did not have the time yet, to process them.
• The prosecutor only questioned Mohammed Bouyeri right after his arrest. At that time he did not wanted to cooperate. No further attempts where made.
• An AIVD (Dutch inteligence service) transcript of a conversation of Mohammed Bouyeri, was found in the house of Mohammed Bouyeri (See also: The Secret Service Mole story).
• Achmed H. (26), who lived at the same address as Mohammed Bouyeri, worked in a building opposite to where Theo van Gogh lived. He also has no albi for the time around the murder. Witnesses declare that they have seen him, together with two others, near the crime scene.
• The prosecutor knew on 2 november of the threats made against Wilders and Hirsi Ali, but waited to inform other services that handle the securiy (DKDB) of Wilders and Hirsi Ali. He says he first wanted to do some research and forwarded the information on 3 november. Strangly enough, Aboutaleb and burgomaster Cohen received protection that same day, but Wilders and Hirsi Ali only days later.
• The pro-forma trial date for the Hofstad terrorist trial in set on 7 february.
• The public prosecutor asked 3 months delay to finish his investigation.

The Charges

1. Murder on Theo van Gogh with terrorist intentions
2. Attempted murder of 8 police officers with terrorist intentions
3. Attempted murder on 2 bystanders with terrorist intentions
4. Making death threats to Ayaan Hirsi Ali with terrorist intentions
5. Obstructing Ayaan Hirsi Ali to attend a parliamentary meeting with terrorist intentions.
6. Membership of a criminal organisation with terrorist intentions
7. Conspiracy to murder with terrorist intentions
8. Illegal possession of firearm and ammunition

The arrest
Regarding the murder on Theo van Gogh, they have 53 eyewitnesses. Only some minor details where not reported earlier. New was that he gave more details on how the arrest took place.

After the slaughter Mohammed Bouyeri calmly walked through the park. When he wanted to leave the park, he walked into a police car. He walked to the car. The police officers in the car stayed passive. When Mohammed Bouyeri is only a few meters away from the car, he starts shooting on them. In panic the police car tries to flee, but crashes into a wall. Mohammed follows them calmly and continues shooting and hits one officer in the chest (he was wearing a bullet proof vest). When other police cars arrive, he shoots at these cars too. In all cars bullet holes where found.

The prosecutor
Prosecutor Straelen, argues that Mohammed Bouyeri must have practiced because after the slaughter of Theo van Gogh, he put 15 new bullets in his clip to reload his gun. A task an untrained person can not easily do, according to the prosecutor.

He further thinks the murder was a catalyst for more division between the different ethnic groups in The Netherlands (Dutch vs. Islam). This trial should give a signal to al young people that they can better focus their attention on other activities. But he said, the extremist lecture they found, should not be regarded as representative for all Moroccans living in The Netherlands, it was only representative for the members of the Hofstad terror group.

He argued that Mohammed Bouyeri did commit a terrorist act as a warning to the Dutch and not only tried to silence Theo van Gogh.

He said that some said he radicalized because his plan, he wrote as a social worker where rejected by the municipality office. But the prosecutor says he was already radicalized before that. He has been arrested five times and three times he was violent against the police. One time he even tried to stab police officers. When they ordered him to lay down his knife he threw the knife at them. There was an other incident at the social service office, he had threatened the security officer with: "I kill you", "I will pull your hart out". His last arrest was in September 2004, when he was violent when he did not wanted to pay for public transport. After his arrest he refused to give the police a hand and said: “I hate you, I hate you” and he spitted on the ground.

These are remarkable facts, because right after the slaughter of Theo van Gogh, a public prosecutor said they had no records about Mohammed Bouyeri that were relevant. They only had some minor things, that were totally unrelated to his terrorist acts. Things like this make you understand why they do not recognize a terrorist when they see one: ignorance is bliss.

They found a lot of terrorist lecture in the home of Mohammed Bouyeri. And more proof of his suicide attack plan is found at the location of an other Hofstad terror member. This suspect claims to have received a small box, just two or three days before the murder on Theo van Gogh with the request to deliver them "in case something happens to me". In the small Nokia box they found four letters written by Mohammed. Three letters were for the family of Mohammed. The first was a farewell letter, in which he said he exchanged his sole for paradise. The other was a testament, in which he wrote that should live according to the rules of Islam like he did and that they should not repay his dept to the kufar (unbelievers). By this he meant his bank. He had redrawn the maximum amount of money from his bank, and he was 1000 Euro in the red. In a third letter he left the money.

The fourth letter was a letter addressed to Zakaria T. (21) . In it he writes that he will carry with him the "open letter to Hirsi Ali" and his farewell poem "baptized in blood" during his "3maliyyah" (operation or attack). The first he knifed on Theo van Gogh and the other is after his arrest found in his pocket. This letter also contained a USB stick.

The USB stick (portable memory device) contained: translated Jihad messages, the open letter to Hirsi Ali, his farwell poem, a letter addressed to the people of Holland, a letter to the Islamic youth, a letter to the Islamic Uma, a letter to the lying ‘Aalim and Imam, a letter to representative Wilders (similar as the one to representative Ayaan Hirsi Ali), a letter to alderman Aboutaleb (idem.) and other Jihad articles he wrote. On the computers of other Hofstad cell member police found the same documents.

An example of his Jihad lecture he wrote was an article with the English title: "To catch a wolf" for which he used an alias: Abu Zubair. In it he preaches revolution and predicts it will not take long before "the knights of Allah will march on the Binnenhof [Dutch parliament] and that they will rise the Tawheed flag in the middle of the square. The parliament will be renamed Sharia court and the chairman's hammer will go down to ratify the Islamic sentences. From the tower of Kok [refering to the private office of the minister president] will sound the praises for Allah."

He also wrote a new Islamic constitution for the Netherlands, consists of multiple parts. In part four he attacks the West and argues in favor for the Sharia and the need for Jihad. In his latest part, number 5, he also critiqued the AEL (Arab European League). The AEL wants to advance Sharia by using the democratic system. He argues that this is wrong, because both are incompatible with each other.

Interesting detail is, that he tried to smuggle a new written part 5 out of the prison hospital (he was shot in his leg during the arrest) via his visiting brother. This raises the question, how can Mohammed write such material in the first place. Isn’t he under surveillance? Does he even have access to computers? Was this ignorance? It is hard to believe.


The defense
The defense lawyer, P. Plasman, said that his client wanted to bear the full responsibilities of his actions. And that he does not want to plea for temporary insanity. Mohammed wants to be judged for his actions and does not want his mental health being checked by a shrink.

But the prosecutor wants to let his mental stability be researched. But the defense argued: How can the prosecutor reasonably think that the suspect is not sane, when at the same time he accuses him of 15 terrorist acts. The last time the defendant had to stand trial, he was also not found mentally instable either. Does the prosecution think, so he argues: that they can heal somebody from terrorism?

The prosecutor counters that “he had not always had these ideas that lead to this criminal acts, that is what we know for sure” and said that he wanted to research how he radicalized and why he wanted to pursuit goals that where not compatible with our society. The judge ruled that the psychological investigation should take place.

The defense also referred to minister Zalm, who has said after the assassination: “it is war”. The defense now says, that his client feels the same. When the defense lawyer is really going to use this line of argument, it could result in a groundbreaking court case. During wartime, very different rules apply. And let’s face it, Bin Laden declared war, Mohammed Bouyeri acted on the basis of this declaration, he did it all in the open and he was wearing a uniform.

To be continued.


See also:
Prosecution of Mohammed B.
Justice dossier assassination Theo van Gogh
Secret service mole

Aditional Sources:
Transcript of prosecutor (Dutch)

Donner gets touch

Minister Donner (Justice) reacted this Monday, unusual tough when he talked about the reactions of the neighborhood on the death of robber Ali el Bejjati.

Donner thinks that there will be need for many more prison cells, considering the reactions. He said he was shocked, "what I saw on television, was a group that said, stealing and robbing is normal, we all do that. We can not have groups like that in our society", Donner said. He found it shocking that people in the neighborhood called Ali el B. a good person, despite that he was steeling and robbing.

Donner made his statements at a celebration held for the start of the construction of a new prison in the city of Lelystad.


See also:
French criticize Donner
Robber Dies (4)
Robber Dies (3)
Robber Dies (2)
Robber Dies

Source: Omroep Flevoland

Air force wants Moroccan’s

The Dutch air force, wants to be a representation of Dutch society. They now announced that they going to focus their recruiting efforts on Moroccan youth. Today there was a special open day for Moroccan’s at air force base "De Peel" in the province of Braband. They recruitment officer says, "The families first get a tour around the base. Then we have a discussion where loyalty is central. It is important that they realize how it is to be as a Moroccan in the Dutch military. Because if you are send on a mission to Muslim countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, you can not say no." The recruitment office says they eventually want to employ at least 15% people from foreign decent.

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Source: fok

New anti terrorist measures

More than two years after 9-11 and more than two months after the slaughter of Theo van Gogh the Dutch government is still not ready for the terrorists. Today the government came with it's anti terrorist measures. In a letter send to parliament, the ministers Donner (Justice), Remkes (domestic affairs) and minister Verdonk (Immigration and Integration), informed the parliament of their plans.


Proposed higher budgets
The government is planning to spend the next five years 414 million euro extra on anti terror related activities. This year the budget will rise with 48 million euro and will rise in 2009 to 95 million euro. They plan to enlarge the capacity of the different intelligence services with around 600 full time employees (fte):

AIVD intelligence Service: +107 fte
Police and public prosecutor's office: +90 fte
Military Police: +148 fte
Royal and diplomatic protection service (DKDB): +235 fte
DKDB, observation and protection,: +7 fte

But in an other press release of the ministry of domestic affair they announced that the AIVD with now 1000 employees, will grow with 350 employees the coming 5 years. The press release is a response on an AIVD review report published last year. In the press release they also write that the AIVD should enhance it's quality, communication to civilians and other government branches and that the control on the AIVD should be enhanced. This sound like they have the nearly impossible task of enhancing quality, change its procedures and at the same time let the organization grow fast. Not an easy task.


Proposed Measures
With the extension of the intelligence organizations the government what's to enhance the information position of these services and that, the ministers write, could lead to government action and actually prosecutions of people and/or organizations. In the past this was something that did not happend often and if it did it lacked in a successfull prosecution. Most terror cases failed before the court and terror suspects where released (and even had to be compensated in money).

The letter also expresses the intention to: dissolving organization using civil law, declare radicals persona non grate and deny visas to radicals. They also want to use the tax and customs service to research suspicious organizations (these service have extra intrusive measures other services like the police do not have).

Also, local governments should subsidizes more strictly and not subsidize clubs who have extremists as their members (Many mosques and Islamic organizations are subsidized). Although the Netherlands is already a country with the highest phone eavesdrops surveillance rate in the world, further extensions of eavesdrops are also proposed.

New is also the introduction of permanent security area's. In the past local government could only declare temporary security area's as a measure against football hooligans. In the new permanent security area's the (military) police will be allowed to search any body, without prior suspicion. The whole area of Schiphol is now declared a security area. Soon all international airports will follow (Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht and Groningen).

In the proposal Dutch courts will get the possibility to give people, besides their regular penalty, a profession prohibitions. They could give that penalty when they use there profession to propagate hate or violence. The judge will determine for what period they will get the job prohibition. The measure could be used against Imams, Social workers and teachers.

New are also the proposed administrative measures against potential terrorists. They will make it possible to prohibit people to come near certain people or objects and a mandatory periodic reporting to the police. These measures will not need a courtroom conviction, they can be taken against persons who come in the picture due to their contacts, activities or other indications. The measures could be used against people who received training in camps in for example Pakistan. But even suspicious behavior near certain location can be enough.


Color code system
Last year a new Terror warning system based on color codes, similar to the US, was made operational. The following threat levels where introduced: yellow (light threat), orange (moderated threat) and red (high threat). The government raised the threat level when The Netherlands became EU chairman. Around that time they also arrested Samir Azzouz, who is also linked to the Hofstadgroep terrorist group. He is suspected of planning attacks on a nuclear reactor, Schiphol airport, parliament and other government buildings.

They expect that the end of March the following locations take security measures based on the threat levels:

* Dutch national rail
* City of Rotterdam
* Airport Schiphol (near Amsterdam)
* Electricity networks
* Water supply


Current measures against terrorists
The letter also speaks about the investigation around the Hofstad terror cell for which 12 suspects are held. One of the Hofstad terror cell members, who was under surveillance by the AIVD, was the Assassin of Theo van Gogh. The government that they started procedures to declare three of them persona non-grata and one residence permit has been withdrawn.


European measures
Beside again announcing to work better with other EU member states they work also on visa information system that contains personal and biometric information of all Schengen country visa. Also a new central unit who coordinates the actions needed for the surveillance of the EU outer borders is announced together with the intention to exchange criminal records.


Reactions of the parliament

The Christian party (CDA) is very content with the measures. But fraction leader Verhagen wants more measures like revoking some extremist some civil rights like freedom of speech and the right to hold meetings.

The Liberal party (VVD) thinks the measures are encouraging. They think the government is on the right way and is getting on their feet again, but now wants to see some execution instead of only proposals. They also have questions about the coherence of the proposed measures.

The smallest party, that is part of the current government, is the liberal-socialist (D66). They says the measures are only based on repression and question if they are not to intrusive. They fear the measures do not only effect extremist but also regular people. They say the plans should focus more on prevention, like enhancing the public education system.

The Socialist party (PvdA), is not yet satisfied. They want, like the VVD, to see execution instead of words. They say the governments intentions are good, but the proposed measures are to vague and not detailed enough. They also propose to make Utrecht Central station, the nations biggest train station, and the harbor of Rotterdam an permanent security area.

The Greens (Groenlinks) are disappointed by the measures. They say the measures are irresponsible intrusive against marginal phenomenon’s of terrorism by criminalizing the glorification of terror attacks. They think attention should go solely to the real terrorist instead of their admirers. The Greens are the political arm of many direct action groups, some have ties with terror groups like ETA and the PLO.


International press:
Pakistan Daily times


Sources: Ministry of Domestic Affairs, Volkskrant, Telegraaf , Intel-weblog

Referendum on EU constitution

The senate voted today in favor for the first referendum in Holland. Only the Christian parties in the senate voted against it. In May or June the Dutch can vote in favor or against the new EU constitution. But the liberal (VVD) members emphasized that it is not a binding referendum, it is legally only an advice to government and parliament.

Most political parties are in favor of the new EU constitution; conservative representative Wilders said he is going to campaign against it.

The Secret Service Mole (2)

Today the trial against Outman Ben Amar, who leaked Dutch inteligence information to terrorists, is posponed. RTL news says that the judge wants that Dutch politicics descide if Outman Ben Amar is allowed to break his confidentiality duty.

To see the whole story about the double agent: The Secret Service Mole (1)

Source: RTL Nieuws

Child Euthanasia

In The Netherlands they now also euthanasia the little Children. This latest step on the road to a Nazi state, with a total disrespect for humans. But did not get any attention in the Netherlands. It did get attention in the foreign press. Last year it was reported that Dutch hospital let die premature babies that in other countries get a treatment and have a high survival change, but the news did not get much attention ether.

Read here the full story.

But Dutch government is aware of the foreign attention. Foreign affairs minister Bot has announced he will brief all ambassadors to correct the caricature some foreign press makes about The Netherlands...

Source: Telegraaf

French criticize Donner

The French ambassador, Anne Gazeau-Secret, has sharp criticism on what justice minister Donner has said in the interview. To say: "Fundamentalism is a part of every human" is contrary to common sense. Fundamentalist is an aberration that leads to intolerance and violence. According to the ambassador, who leaves next week, a democracy should defend it self against any form of fundamentalism because it is a threat to right of the individual citizens.

Donner said in the interview that Democracy is an instrument to let "Fundamentalist live together with each other" and that by diverse fundamentalist views "new ideas are created in society". But on the other hand, Gazeau-Secret, prizes minister of integration and immigration, Verdonk, who "determinedly and brave strives for" the integration of minorities.

The Netherlands should be made much more resistant against the dangers of Islamic radicalism, she says. "It is worrisome that the AIVD (Dutch intelligence agency), concludes in its latest report that the resistance of Dutch society against radical Islam is low", she writes.

The Dutch government works on proposals to make it possible to evict convicted radical Imams. France has a much longer history of acting against radical preachers: In 2004 there where 14 evictions, for example because they advised to beat "disobedient woman". Holland never ever evicted a radical imam.

See also: Robber dies (4) (other criticism on Donner)

There is something seriously wrong if even the French critique you for being too soft in the war on terror.

Source: Trouw

Robber dies (4)

And the soap continues... [See also: Part (1), Part(2), Part(3)]

Today the Biggest Dutch newspaper, De Telegraaf, wrote on it's frontpage that Justice Minister Donner (CDA) together with the head of the Justice department, Jonkheer mr. J. de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteyn (PvdA), did ask the prosecutor to file the highest charges possible against the woman who was robbed. This resulted in the charge: man-slaughter against her.

Today minister Donner was angry and says it is "totally inaccurate and absolute nonsense". He says that the Telegraaf did not describe the procedure according how it is normally done, the law does not allows him to be involved. Both he and de Wijkersloot where just informed about the charges before they were filed. The prosecutor makes his decisions independent, he said.

Donner expects a rectification of the newspaper, but the paper says they stand with their publication. But they will publish the comments of minister Donner in their Sunday edition. Donner threatens to sue them. But this is unlikely, because when he does, the discussion he had with the Justice department will become public knowledge...

This is not the first time minister Donner is accused of being out of touch with reality. After the slaughter of Theo van Gogh, he wanted to intensify the Blasphemy laws, implying that he wanted to protect the Muslims against further harrasment of people like Theo van Gogh. But also his Justice department has a bad name: it is said politics have lost control over it. It has a reputation for ending ministers careers prematurely. The head of the department Wijkersloot is involved in a long list of scandals. Take for example how he treated a marine who was fighting in Iraq. A marine shot a Iraqi looter in self defense, the justice department arrested the officer directly, deported him to The Netherlands and jailed him. Before an proper investigation was done and De Wijkersloot him self went on television to accuse the officer of crimes. His department leaked all kind of incriminating information to the press, even state secrets.

Just what does it take, to remove these out of touch autocrats?

See also: French criticize Donner

Sources: OM, Geenstijl

Frontline on Eurabia

PBS Frontline, January 25, 2005, 9PM

For our US TV watchers, PBS Frontline will investigate Tuesday al qaeda's new front in Europe (The murder of Theo van Gogh, train bombing in Madrid and the many arrests made in Europe).

Source: intel-weblog

Terror drugs gang

On January 17, Police has arrested 9 Moroccan men and woman who are suspected of being part of a large scale drugs trafficking gang. In the four houses police found: 10 Kg heroine with street value of around 200.000 EUR., a few hundred XTC pills, a few hundreds of gram hashish, a hand gun and a few thousand Euro's cash.

The group is suspected of having ties with terrorist organization. If true, this would be the first time in The Netherlands, that there would be proof of a connection between Drug trafficking and the financing of terror. The anonymous tips the Criminal intelligence services received, where very detailed. In at least one of the tips, there was information about links to the Al Qaida network.

Two government sources say that there is likely a connection to the radical Islamic hofstad group. The hofstad group is Dutch North African group. The murder of Theo van Gogh was one of them.

Leader of the group is an 41 year Imam Hassan L. from Rotterdam. He preaches around the country also in the southern city of Geleen where he is active from 1999.

The identity of the arrested cel members:

* The woman (47) comes from Mulhouse, France.
* A man from Antwerpen, Belgium.
* A man from Denhaag.
* A 47 year old man from Maasticht.
* The identity of the other 5 man is not yet known.

See also: Terror drugs gang (2)

Sources: Volkskrant

Rachid Ben Ali in Hiding

We reported earlier about the art work of Moroccan Rachid Ben Ali (Read: here).

Rachid can not safely walk the streets of Amsterdam any more, without body guards. Last Sunday he left his house and went to stay in a hotel. That night he was pursued by Moroccan youth, but he managed to escape. From that moment on, he received protection. On the internet he received in past threats addressed to him from extreme right groups and Moroccan websites.

But the recent threats are most likely linked to his latest exposition: gay imams making love, imams who shit from their mouth, Mohammed nailed to a cross and on one of the paintings can be read: "You can threaten me, but I still make this".

You can view pictures of this work: here.

He says he his supported by Moroccan-Dutch alder man Aboutaleb (PvdA) and green parliamentary member Femke Halsema (Groenlinks). "I can always call them. That's nice, they have experience with receiving death threats too".

Source: Nieuw Amsterdams Peil

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Robber dies (3)

Robber, Ali el Bejjati, who died during his criminal act when he robbed a 43 year old woman, keeps being front page news in the Netherlands, we reported earlier on the matter in:

Robber Dies (1)
Robber Dies (2)

The latest developments:

The memorial mars
The family and friends of the Ali el Bejjati, wanted to hold a big memorial mars that would start in the center of Amsterdam. In recent years it has become a custom in The Netherlands to hold silent marshes, after innocent people die as a result of what is called 'zinloos geweld' (= senseless violence).

Friends and family called Ali el Bejjati an innocent victim of senseless violence, they say he is murdered. Burgomaster, Cohen, initially said he allows the mars. In the past Cohen often did not gave permits, certainly not on short notice, to groups who he considers inappropriate: like racist, anti immigration or just right wing. But after protests Cohen later said he said that he thinks it is a "bad signal", after he talked to the family they canceled it he said. But that is only half true. The mars now will not start in the center of Amsterdam, but will start on 14.00 at the location where Ali el Bejjati died and from there it will go to the Al Kabir Mosque. At 15.00 there will start a memorial service for Ali el Bejjati.

At the same time the family organized the mars, 14.00, the court will rule in the case of the armed robbery, in which Ali el Bejjati had to stand trial just hours before he robbed the 43 year old woman.


victim released
The prosecutor office wanted to hold the woman who was robbed into custody. But a judge did not allow it, and ruled that it was reasonable to believe that the woman did not had the intention to kill the robbers on the scooter. Against the wishes of the prosecutor she is now released. She is now in hiding (many death threats where made).


The Minister
Integration minister Verdonk also talked about the matter and warned that the woman who is now released, is not suspected of murder. The woman did not drive somebody death because she met someone who she did not like. "If the boy did not stole the bag, he would still be driving on his scooter as usual. And the woman would just be at her home". Being afraid of being accused to interfere with the legal procedure she added: "But I do not plea any body free".

Representative Wilders
Independent parliamentary conservative Wilders finds it "hideous" that the prosecutor suspect the woman of man-slaughter on the Moroccan robber: "This is the world upside down. They create a victim of the criminal and the other way around". He can not understand it and finds it inappropriate to prosecute the woman. He wants that all Moroccan thugs, who are involved in repeated street terror, are send out of the country.

The Dutch people
Polster Maurice the hond asked people what they think about the matter (full pole results here):

Was it an tragic accident?

• 67% : It was a tragic acident
• 12% : No it was not (34% PvdA and 32% Groenlinks voters)
• 21% : I don't know

The woman is accused of man-slaughter, do you agree?

• 17% : Yes (27% PvdA, 41% Groenlinks voters)
• 72% : No
• 11% : I do not know

Should the woman say in custody?

• 4% : Yes
• 92%: Release her until the court case
• 4% : I do not know

Do you think she did it on purpose?

• 10% : Yes
• 71% : No
• 19% : I do not know

If she did it on purpose, how much punishment should she get?

• 20% : None
• 31% : Community work
• 4% : imprisonment for 3 moths
• 3% : imprisonment for 6 moths
• 5% : imprisonment for 1 year
• 8% : imprisonment for 3 year
• 14% : imprisonment for 5 year or more
• 16% : I don't know

Did the robber who died took the risk of being killed during his crime?

• 74% : Yes
• 21% : No
• 5% : I don't know

Who is the victem in this case?

• 56% : The woman
• 3% : The killed robber (6% of PvdA and 16% Groenlinks voters)
• 39% : Both
• 2% : None of both
• 1% : I don't know

Pvda = Socialist party. Groenlinks = Green party.

Sources: Nu.nl, Pole, Telegraaf(1), Telegraaf(2)

Race Riots

In Holland shops have to close at 18.00 hours, one day a week a city can allow the shops to be open until 21.00. In the city of Utrecht that was yesterday evening, but that nigh it was also the start of the Muslim feast of sacrifice.

Groups of young Moroccan of around 40-80 men where roaming largest Utrecht shopping, Hoog Catharijne. They where blocking passages and some where harassing the shoppers (Eye witnes RigorMortis on the Dutch Fok blog: saw some grab a womans breast and ass). When police did an arrest, the different groups came together and a group of around 300 turned against the police. The police had to use batons and dogs to suppress the riots and to remove the youth from the shopping center. The police did 16 arrests.

Security personnel of the shopping center said that they always have 'feast' during Moslem feasts. But police said they did not know why the groups where in the shopping center and says they are investigating why they came there.

Sources: Utrechts Nieuws blad, Nieuws.nl, Nu.nl

Iraqi police investigates

Dutch troops have shot a man in a car who did not wanted to stop at a checkpoint. Iraqi police will investigate the matter assisted by Dutch military police.

Read more here.

Last year a Dutch marine officer, shot a looter in Iraq. A group of looters had turned against the small group of soldiers and ignored warnings. The Iraqi looters said a man was shot dead by the warning shot of the officer, but no body or bullet was available for proof. But still the marine was directly arrested after the incident, jailed and flown back to Holland. He was kept in prison during the holiday season. The court did not sentenced him, but the prosecutor appealed. A fact that amazed every body. The head of the nations prosecutor office is a member of the socialist PvdA and is born with royal blue blood.

What's wrong with Expatica?

It is common knowledge that main stream media has a left leaning bias, and a very left leaning bias in Europe. But if you think it can not get worse and from now on it will get better, you could get a very cold shower.

The only free English language news service that covers the Netherlands on a regular basis, Expatica, ran an opinion article that attracted my attention. The title was: "Dutch Muslims find a voice - of reason?". What a strange combination I taught and it made me curious.

To my surprise they where writing right at the beginning of the article: "The Muslim Democratic Party (MDP) could be a real force for good". They also mention the founder, Mohammed Jabri, and called him a columnist. But they fail to mention that he is columnist for Elqalem.nl. A Dutch fundamentalistic Islamic website. On the site Jabri wrote an anti gay manifesto, a story in which Hirsi Ali died in a car bomb attack, said that he is not against treats to Hirsi Ali, want to end democracy to establish Sharia laws, calls the US a terrorist state, compared the US government with Hitler and so on...

How can they think at Expatica that Jabri and his party, will be a force of good and could "spread understanding" and "expose as a lie the convenient myth that Muslims are the root of all that is wrong". Are the people of Expatica just misinformed or have do they have other opinions about what lies are? And what they define as good and wrong?

But when I read on I see they are not totally misinformed. They recognize that there is Muslim violence to the native Dutch population. But their solution is mind boggling to me: give the Muslims government power and they going to see The Netherlands as their country.

But that is, that is, ... That is surrendering?!?!?!

And what about calling the assassin of Theo van Gogh, a "wannabe martyr", say what?!? They argue that not the Muslim behavior is the problem, it is Dutch society. Muslims are under represented in politics and political parties are to anti Islam. Conservative politicians are off course the worse of all, especially if they refer to the fact that Dutch culture is Judeo-Christian. At Expatica they even takes over Muslim rhetoric, to counter the this argument:

"He forgot to mention that until Indonesia got its independence from the Netherlands in the 1940s, Islam was the biggest religious group in the Kingdom of the Netherlands."

Do they mean at Expatica that Islam should be the leading culture for Dutch society? They must either be nuts at Expatica or ... Muslim. There is no other explanation, don't say I did not warn you!

Sources: Politiek-digitaal, Expatica, Elqalem

Robber dies (2)

This is a real soap story that is all over the news, 2 days ago I also reported on this (see: here), but the world really goes upside down, is Holland insane?:

A woman (43) had to stop, then robbers opened her car door and stole her bag. The two thugs drove away on their scooter. The woman then, set her car in reverse and pursuit the criminals by driving backward, but after 50 meter, crashed into the scooter. One of the robbers, Ali el Bejjati (19), got stuck between her car and a tree and died. The woman was apprehended.

Today the prosecutors office says they are going to charge the woman with man-slaughter (max. 15 years imprisonment) because she took an unjustifiable risk by pursuing the street robbers. The prosecutor further said he want to hold the woman in custody at least the next two weeks, it was not needed for the investigation or because she could flee, the only reason he says he has is "because this case shook the society". After was known that the woman would be prosecuted the other robber, who initially fled, turned him self in.

The woman, a mother of two children is very upset. Her lawyer says that she did follow the robbers to get her stuff back: "She is very upset. She finds it terrible what happened to the boy and his family. She wants to explain to the family what happened".

The woman would not even have noticed that she hit the scooter. "When she hit the tree, she stepped out and pursuit one of the street robbers. But she could not keep up and returned to her car. Only after she picked up her stuff from her bag, she saw the boy next to the tree. It was absolutely not her intention to harm the street robbers by driving into them".

The lawyer says, that is not clear if her car has hit the scooter. It could be that the scooter was launched while speeding over the sleeping policeman. A witness says that after the accident she was in panic and shouted: "This is not what I wanted". Confused she asked him why she robbed him. "There was not even money in the bag!" The woman was in shock and picked her make-up out of her bag while she said loud: "Look, all broken".


The bystanders

There are many other people who have seen it, but they are afraid to tell reporters. But when the sister of Ali el Bejjati comes to lay flowers on the place where her brother died emotion grow high. An older man: "First we had that history of the murder on Theo van Gogh here around the corner. And now this. My sister does not want to live here any more. We Moroccan's are no longer welcome. I am fed up with it". He knows it for sure: Ali B. is murdered because of a hand bag. All young Moroccan's agree: "it was murder, because he was a Moroccan".

An older Moroccan man is angry: "Everybody should leave us alone: press, the Dutch who ask questions. They are on top of this, because the robber was a Moroccan. But we Moroccan's don't like this either. Now again we are critiqued."


Background of robber

But also new facts around robber Ali el Bejjati came out. It turns out that he was just a few hours before he was in court for a violent armed robbery he had done on 11 May 2004. During the court session the prosecutor asked for 2 years imprisonment. He was arrested for this crime on 26 May but was released on 16 September because his brother provided him with an alibi.

But there is more, in November 2000 he was also arrested for street robbery, in the same are as he robbed the woman. He was sentenced for 42 days in prison and 30 hours of communal work.


The Islamic commemoration

But his friends say he is innocent. On the location he died, they held with their Imam and 100 others a ceremonial to remember Ali el Bejjati and prayed for him. The blessed the fact that the woman wood be prosecuted for man slaughter. The put papers on the trees with the text: "Ali, you where one of the few with a heart of gold. Had always big plans for your future. A hard working boy with 2 jobs. Your end was unjust, but now your with Allah. Your are a soldier en we will not forget you, because deep in our hearts you will always live". An other paper said among other things: "You are an example for us".

His friends Mo. (19) and Yassin (19) saw their friend die in front of their eyes. Mo. said: "The woman should not try to take the law in her own hands. Theft is not the same as murder". But they say that they can not believe he was a criminal: "He did work hard for his money".

An other friend, the 22 year old Samir also feels sorry for the death of his friend: "A human can better die by doing a good deed. Dying due to a bad act is not so good in the Islam. I hope something like this does not happen again".

Mister Wakoi, representative of the Islamic Social Cultural Center also said it was horrible: "You are never allowed to take the law in your own hands. He should had learned from his mistakes. Ali was a nice guy, but was influenced by others. We should continue in peace."

Well known Dutch Moroccan rapper Ali B., who is the darling of MTV and other political correct media that gave him all sorts of prices and invitations, was also at the commemoration. He knew the robber, he used to live in the same neighborhood. Local TV station AT5 says Ali B. wanted to include the event in one of his new songs. But on his website he later denied that he is going to record a special song about it [he is know to have a professional commercial team around him].

Thursday 20 January, there will be a memorial service in the Al Kabir mosque.

Interview with his sister

Ali was still living at home but his family did not know he did these things. Is sister even gave an TV interview. Sitting in her sleeping room, looking we see a clock and vaseline on her night table but she does not want to be recognizable on the TV, listen was she has to say:

Sister: "The main point is that she could had let the police handle it. She did not had to drive the boy death, there was no need. My little brother was a spontaneous sweet boy, who if he sees somebody always greets him even if he has seen that person only once, always smiling, followed an education, had 2 jobs.

Reporter: "They say your brother or his friend pulled the bag out of the car. Did you ever here that your brother did something like that?"

Sister: "I can not believe that my brother has done something like that. I can not believe it. No."

Reporter: "He was not a type to it?"

Sister: "If you would look at him, he would not be the type for it. Thus for me it is a surprise that they accuse him of this."

Reporter: "There was also an other boy with him, a friend of your brother, do you know where he is?"

Sister: "That is what she says. I don't know. I do not know if there was an other boy there".

Reporter: "But they where together on the scooter. Because this scooter was" [interrupted]

Sister: "The question is, who says so. She is saying that. Well if that would be the case: I don't know the boy, I don't know where that boy is, I would not know. But that is something she says."

Update:
Thi s morning the morning TV news, reported the matter again. They filmed his friends and neighbors who where angry about the death of this innocent boy. We saw around 100/200 man pray in Arabic on the location he died. Then a friend was interviewed, he told us what a nice and good guy he was and that his murder was unjust. The news did not mention his criminal record and did not mention the victim who is now in jail..

This week, the body of Ali el Bejjati will be flown to Morocco (most Dutch-Moroccan's don't want to be buried in The Netherlands).

In Holland your are practically not allowed to go after robbers or burglars, if you do you have a high risk of being prosecuted for use of excessive risks or violence. Many people have been prosecuted in high profile cases for harassing shop lifters and robbers. It has even happened that criminals have sued their victims, with success. This case is an other step of the Dutch government in the total erosion of a law based society that protects the freedom of the people...

See also:
Robber dies (1)
Robber dies (3)

Sources: Om (Prosecutor), Sister in TV interview on AT5, AT5, Telegraaf, Volkskrant, AD, AD(2), Trouw(1), Trouw(2), Nieuws.nl

Hirsi Ali is back!

Today Hirsi Ali has returned to parliament. She has been hiding for 10 weeks on a US marine base in Maine.

Read more here:

• The Washington Post
• Fox news
• New York Times

Yesterday day I reported that while she was still in hiding she was under attack by party members of her own VVD party (read here).

But yesterday evening VVD party leader, Van Aartsen, distanced him self from Hirsi Ali when he addressed party member in the city of Groningen. He said that she is not allowed to deviated from the official party line. He is against any political attack on a religion. Because liberals see religion as a private mater. VVD members should not be concerned with the inner workings of a religion. "We should not replace tolerance by Islamophobia or secular conversion zealotery, but we should strive against any public appearance of intolerance" he said [Islamist and other opponents say she is on a liberal Jihad].

"The freedom of religion is important. Even something as cruel as a ritual murder, may not seduce us to suppress that freedom". What must be tackled, Van Aarsten said, is the excrescences of that religion.

Hirsi Ali's press conference

But today, Ayaan could react when she gave a press conference. She opened the press conference with the words: "75 days I could not be here and thus also not on the cremation of Theo van Gogh". And told that she only really got to know Theo after she made the movie Submission with him. She said the past period was heavy and that she received a lot of supportive e-mails, but also criticism. The words of the mother of Theo van Gogh did her good [She told that Hirsi Ali was not to blame for the dead of her son].

In what could be seen as an answer to the criticism, she said it is just obvious that there should be room for religion. "But that should happen in freedom". A small minority of Muslims choose to use violence. But the voice of the silent majority should now be heard. She further points out that the Muslim extremism that struck The Netherlands was not a local incident but an international phenomenon. "We must be prepared for more violence".

"I am not trying to hurt people feelings. I have opinions and I like to be judged on the power of my arguments. It is all about words, not violence. We do not end discussions with violence."

About Submission is long thought by Ayaan and Theo. They also spoke extensively about the risks of making a movie about the abuse of Muslim woman. She finds it horrible that some Muslims choose to use violence and murdered Theo van Gogh. She closed her press conference with the words: "The open debate will triumph. I will continue!"

The reaction of van Aartsen shows a very ignorant understanding of the all encompassing totalitarian system of Islam. If this continues, Hirsi Ali could be forced to join Geert Wilders his political movement. Although she does not seem to support his small government ideals and she likes the protection of an older, bigger and more influential political party.

Source: AD, nu.nl, fok

Meaningless violence

Years ago, the Dutch invented the term: "meaningless violence". It is used for murders that are done without apparent reason. But gets more and more synonym with crimes done by Islamic, mostly Moroccan youth. Take for example this latest incident at the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam.

In a sandwich store two Moroccan men, Mohammed A. (21) and El G. (20), are harassing a group of girls, Jan Kievit (38, father of 2) makes a comment about it. Outside Jan Kievit kicked and knocked down by Mohammed A. When the police and ambulance comes a bigger group of about 20-30 Moroccans is standing around the wounded man and say to him: "Go and die! Go and die!". The group does not allow the ambulance personnel to help the man.

A bystander says he went sick of the incident. "It was too disgusting for words to express. I have it very difficult with this, certainly now I know the man has died a few hours later", the very emotional bystander said.

An other bystander says that the police could not do anything. "I wanted to go and fight to remove them, but we where only with a few people. Also the police could not do anything until more police officers arrived."

In Holland the police is just as scared as unarmed bystanders...

UPDATE:
It is now reported that the two man plus a third man where earlier that evening apprehended by the police in Delft. They where harassing other train passengers. But after a short speech of the police officer they where released. Several witnesses declared that he Mohammed A. said before the murder: "Just like Theo van Goghs murderer, Mohammed B., I will not be pushed around!".

It is possible that Mohammed A. can not be prosecuted for man-slaughter. The section report on the victim says that he crack in a vein and that it is not clear if violence cased the dead of Jan Kievit.

Sure.

Sources: Fok(1), Fok(2), Telegraaf

Organ shortage

In Holland people can let themselves be registered as organ donors at a government institution. This gives the government the right to remove their organs directly after they die, without permission of the family. In the past, the government has campaigned to promote this and has send every Dutch citizen a registration form, but most people did not wanted to be registered.

Because there still is a shortage of donors, Dutch politicians want to change the rules and make every body a donor. Only people who let themselves be registered as not being a donor will be exempted.

The organizations that promote people to be donor say that a majority of the Dutch people is in favor of a mandatory registration. Although the government is against it, a parliamentary majority does exists: Socialist (PvdA, SP, Groenlinks, D66) are in favor, the Liberals (VVD) are most likely in favor.

Resistance is futile! We are the Borg! Or to use the words of former prime minister Kok (PvdA): "we are all a bit of each other".

Sources: Nieuws.nl

Robber dies

While driving in Amsterdam a 43 year old woman had to stop on the Derde Oosterpark street. But when she stopped, two young boys on a scooter open a door of her car and grabbed her bag. Apparently this was not a normal cowardly Dutch, she put the car in reverse and went in hot pursuit of the two thieves. But the pursuit resulted in the death of one of the criminals when she crashed on the motor cycle. The other criminal fled the scene. The woman was apprehended. Although police now says "it looks like a tragic accident", they did not release the woman.

The young criminal that died was an 19 year old Moroccan. Two of his accomplices where arrested later (age 15 and 16). The role of the two man is under investigation, but police is investigating similar robberies.

The Moroccan youth around the incident scream he was murdered. But an other man says: "His own fault". But the Moroccan youth wants justice. Omar says: "This is racism, the woman has been perusing him until she got him". Mohammed: "That woman and her family will burn".

They kick against the police fence and scold against the police officers, who in their eyes are just hanging around. "If it had been a Moroccan they would have done much more".

Meanwhile the group of angry young Muslims his growing. "Where is that woman? Where is the hoar?". But there is also concern for the family of the dead robber. "Does anybody know where they live? Has someone already warned them?"

But the family already knows. Just a moment a go, the father of the criminal went crazy when he saw his dead son. He was swinging wild with his arms and screamed hard. Police hardly can convince the man to come with them to the police office, where a crisis team is going to support him.

That evening, when police was still investigating, Moroccan youth said: "it was a good guy, he was doing good on school too. He would never do a robbery". Later the group of Moroccan youth started shouting: "It's murder, it's murder!". And the stories the Moroccan's tell each other grow, the woman should have driven full speed over the robber. Also she would have been driving a few times over him.

Dutch people, living in the area, shake their head. They hope the situation will not escalate. They don't want to be even more scared to walk the streets. Ed says: "We are already used to a lot of things: Burglary, robbery. But if we also start murdering each other on the streets...". An other local resident, Frans is not surprised: "Because of these Maroccan's on their scooter you are scared when your walking in the street. It was only a matter of time that somebody would not take it anymore".

Later that night the Moroccan youth was close to starting riots.

I feel very sorry for the brave woman, who is now in deep trouble by what happened to her.

This whole thing does me remind of an incident that happened two years ago, also in Amsterdam. Then a policeman shot down an aggressive man who came running towards him with a big kitchen knife. The man died and riots broke out in the immigrant neighborhood. A big demonstration was staged against police brutality, organized by the Islamist fundamentalist AEL. But the demonstration was also attended by a known socialist of the local PvdA. At the time, the socialist burgomaster Cohen (PvdA) suspended the police officer involved.

See also:
Robber dies (2)
Robber dies (3)

Sources: Volkskrant , Telegraaf, At5, NRC

The prosecution of Mohammed B.

The Murderer of Theo van Gogh, the Moroccan Mohammed Bouyeri is so far charged for: the murder on Theo van Gogh, the attempted murder of two police officers and the obstruction of the parliamentary work of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

But now the public prosecutor possibly also wants to prosecute him, in a different trial, for taking part in a criminal organization with the objective to murder burgomaster Cohen, alderman Aboutaleb, representative Wilders and Hirsi Ali. Mohammed made dead threats to these persons in the letter he left on the body on Theo van Gogh. According to the prosecutor, this investigation takes more time and will be separate of the murder investigation: "we want to prevent that the trial for the murder on Theo van Gogh will be delayed".

The first initial hearing for the court in the Theo van Gogh murder case will be on 26 January 2005.

Source: Parool

USA loves Wilders

The New York Observer ran a story on Dutch representative Wilders who made a trip to the USA to meet other conservatives. In Socialist Holland he is considered far right, but that is not how they see him in the US. Each time when he tells his story about Turkey, immigration stop of non-Western people, the too bureaucratic EU en UN, he gets barked for being a moderate. Read here the story published in the New York Observer:


Going Dutch
by Michael Calderone

Despite the multiple death threats against him, Geert Wilders makes a grand entrance when he can. The 41-year-old Dutch parliamentarian’s much-discussed whitish-blond coiffure and brawny six-foot frame immediately gave him away as he entered the Martin Gang Law Library, three floors above the midtown offices of Commentary magazine, on Jan. 10. Around 20 academics, policy wonks and journalists cut short their highbrow conversations and glanced up from their coffee and pastries to take a look. After a brief introduction, with his security detail waiting outside the conference room, the dark-suited Mr. Wilders began his pitch for a "Dutch Patriot Act" to take aggressive measures against Islamic radicals in his homeland and explained his call for a five-year moratorium on non-Western immigration to the Netherlands.

Such stances may have earned him death threats back home, but they’ve made him the darling of many conservatives in the States. During his week-long tour, Mr. Wilder’s packed agenda includes the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C. He also plans to meet with Tim Goeglein, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, who was described in a recent Washington Post profile as "a virtual middleman between the White House and conservatives of all stripes seeking to shape its policies."

Mr. Wilders’ speaking engagement at Commentary was the result of a few well-placed phone calls and e-mails sent out to announce his arrival. However, managing editor Gary Rosen maintains that "it was not meant to show our sponsorship or endorsement of his views."

Dutch society is known for its extreme tolerance (same-sex marriage) and permissive attitudes (decriminalization of soft drugs and prostitution), and Mr. Wilders’ conservative policies would normally be a tough sell at home. However, shortly after the November murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist, Mr. Wilders’ popularity has soared in some recent national polls among predictions that if elections were held tomorrow, his party—which currently doesn’t even have enough potential candidates—could pick up as many as 28 of the 150 seats in Parliament.

Stylistically, Mr. Wilders was impressive in his command of the material, yet some of his proposals were met with furrowed brows rather than cheers. A few audience members focused in on some of the vagaries in the platform that have to be ironed out if Mr. Wilders wants U.S. support.

But Cooper Union professor Fred Siegel, who attended the event, told The Transom that Mr. Wilders presented his views sensibly and is correct in several ways. "Reading someone like Ian Buruma’s [recent 5,000-word New Yorker] piece, you get a highly misleading impression. He’s calm, reasoned and speaks to the issue."

After the event, Mr. Wilders stood leisurely and smoked on the sidewalk. Walking down Lexington Avenue (with his security detail walking a few paces in front and behind), he remarked that it was "good to get some fresh air"—a rare opportunity for someone driven to Parliamentary sessions in secrecy. At the Barclay New York bar, Mr. Wilders discussed why he is building a new party and how he differs from Pim Fortuyn, the charismatic gay conservative who criticized Dutch policies on immigration and political asylum. Mr. Fortuyn was a politically popular figure, but he was gunned down in May 2002 by an animal-rights activist prior to an election.

"I’m not Pim Fortuyn. I want people to judge me on who I am. I am Geert Wilders. What we share is our anger, and that the popular voice is not being translated into policy."
Whether or not he finds a receptive ear among the conservative elite, Mr. Wilders will keep pitching.

"I want to explain what’s going to happen in Holland and also to ask for support—political support, maybe financial support, all the support possible."

In Holland:
Dutch Newspaper NRC reports about his trip to the USA. When Wilders is sitting in a coffee bar in Washington he quoted saying: "This is freedom". In Holland this is not possible [due to security risks], but even in Washington he has his two bodyguards with him. He also says: "I like the whole Reagan agenda!", like Reagan he also wants a smaller government. The paper adds also some more names of the people and organizations he has met while in the USA: Richard Perl (AEI), Daniel Pipes, Hillel Fradkin, the Libertarian party, Sixty Minutes (CBS), Frontline (PBS), The New Republic, The Financial Times, The Washington Times, Fox News (15 January, prime time).

To my knowledge, no other Dutch politician got so much attention ever before. Let's hope the support in the USA provides him and his political party some security.

Dutch leave Iraq

Last Friday prime minister Balkenende was not yet sure if Dutch troops should be redrawn from Iraq. But today he announced they would definitely leave in March. The liberal VVD and Christian CDA do want this week an explanation of the prime minister Balkenende. Like in Spain the socialist (PvdA) is very happy with the news: "The only responsible decision possible".

Read here the full story.

Tomorrow Hirsi Ali returns

Tomorrow, Tuesday 18 January 2005, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will return to Dutch parliament. After the slaughter of Theo van Gogh, Dutch government held her in hiding in the USA. But while she was in hiding, politicians from nearly all political parties have critiqued her. Even politicians from her own political party the Liberal VVD, are now critiquing her more and more.

A week a go, VVD party prominent and ex-party leader, Hans Wiegel, who is still quite influential, questioned her tactics. He said in the political TV show Buitenhof that, "she makes a hostage of the VVD fraction in parliament with her appearance". He also said a liberal should not ask children to choose between Koran and the Dutch constitution, as Hirsi Ali once did on television. He openly questioned if there still was room for her in parliament.

An other ex-leader of the VVD and now governor of the Queen in the province of Friesland, Ed Nijpels, did not like it either that she asked Muslims to choose between the constitution and their religion. "I think that is unjust. She mixes things up. It's not the constitution or the Islam. The one does not have to exclude the other".

The ex-leader of the JOVD, the VVD's youth organization, Jeroen de Veth, says he thinks the VVD sounds to hard and that could have negative consequences. He does not like terms as "liberal jihad" [others put that label on Hirsi Ali her actions] and "Shortcut to enlightenment" the title of an upcoming book of Hirsi Ali. Because religion in principle is a private matter, he thinks that politicians should not continuously speak out about Islam. The arguments of Hirsi Ali are not balanced enough, although balance is an attitude that belongs to the VVD. He thinks party leader van Aartsen should make it clear to Hirsi Ali that she is not a columnist who can say what she want, but that she should be a politician who should support the party line.

The current leader of the JOVD, Hans de Backer, thinks the VVD will be overshadowed by all commotion around Hirsi Ali. He thinks she should not only focus on Islam and woman emancipation. The VVD already took some of the political competence area's away from Hirsi Ali's her responsibility.

VVD member Edwin van de Haar and board member of conservative think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation opposed to the proposed solutions of Hirsi Ali. These would result in too intrusive state control on private life. As an example he refers to her proposal to make it mandatory to medial examine young Muslims girls from risk countries in order to prevent genital mutilations, a common ritual in some Muslim communities. In the proposals he recognizes Hirsi Ali's background, who earlier worked for the socialist think tank of the Pvda. He says:"As a liberal you shiver" about solutions like these. He hopes that the party leaders will "correct" her, but he recognizes that could be in vain as he thinks "she is the darling of the party leaders".

Indeed VVD partly leader van Aartsen does not publicly critiques Hirsi Ali. Even now, when many media, report negative on Hirsi Ali. Recently, after the Attack on Theo van Gogh when an other minister (D66) attacked her, he said: "Who touches Ayaan, touches us". But according to a story in newspaper Parool, Hirsi Ali is one of the least popular politicians under VVD voters. That is strange, because according to earlier poles she was accounted for nearly half of the votes on the VVD.

Source: Parool

Rachid Ben Ali in Cobra Museum

The highly successful Moroccan-Dutch artist Rachid Ben Ali exhibits his recent paintings in the Cobra museum in the city of Amstelveen. Moroccan-Dutch alder man, Ahmed Aboutaleb, of the city of Amsterdam opened the gallery last Friday. His work is characterized as hard, confronting, emotional and homoerotic. The Moroccan Rachid came to The Netherlands in 1988. His work gained fast in popularity in part because of the discussion around young Moroccan's. In 2003 he won the KDR art price for artist younger then 35 years old. Even Queen Beatrix, multiculturalist and art lover, selected his work for display. His work is hot and is bought for important collections. Two years a go Rachid was attacked by young Moroccan-Dutch because he was on the cover of Dutch largest Gay magazine "Gay-krant".

According to AT5, a local TV station from Amsterdam, he made the paintings for this exposition, right after the slaughter of Theo van Gogh. In the exposition Rachid wanted to show "how he thinks about Islam", he sees Moslems as hypercritical and narrow minded. His exposition includes painting in which fucking Imams shit in the brains of people. Also seen are naked men and woman with Koran texts on their bodies in a stream of blood and violence.

The work of Rachid Ben Ali can been seen until 6 March in the Cobra museum in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam).

Sources: AT5, Gay Krant, Cobra museum, Nieuw.nl, Galeries.nl

CIA warns Europe

The CIA predicts that the EU will break-up within 15 years unless it radically reforms its ailing welfare systems. But they have not much trust in the current political leadership that they will be able to handle the reforms. The rapport further predicts a growing Muslim population in the EU from now 13% to between 22% or 37% in 2025, potentially triggering tensions.

Read full story: here

Secret Services goes traveling

Later this year the Dutch intelligence agency (AIVD) is going to station liaisons officers on the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Pakistan. They want to get a better relation with the intelligence agencies of these countries in order to get a better grip on international terror organizations. This is not done earlier, because it was against the policies of the agency to cooperate with countries that are not democratic. The AIVD is known as the most 'principled' agency.

It is not reported what kind of principles...

(See also my earlier report on the secret service Mole)

Source: Nederlands Dagblad

Assassination gave positive energy

The murder on Theo van Gogh and the reactions on that murder did also release positive energy in Dutch society, the Dutch prime minister Balkenende said Thursday night in television show "Rondom Tien". He noticed that the people in the Netherlands, who he meets during his work visits all over the country, try more to have a dialog and try to respect each other.

In the TV show he debated with people who he had met during his visits after the assassination of Theo van Gogh. He emphasized again that it is important to have respect for other people when you exercise your right on freedom of speech. He further saw youth unemployment as a cause of radicalisation.

It's scary that we have this guy as our prime minister. Is it really true that each country gets the leader it deserves?

Source: Telegraaf

Extra charges for Mohammed B.

The murderer of Theo van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri, is now also charged for obstructing the work of elected representative Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The maximum sentence for this is live imprisonment. The lawyer of Mohammed suspects that the prosecutor tries everything to get him sentenced to lifelong imprisonment, after failing to get that sentence for Volkert van der Graaf (assassin of politician Pim Fortuyn).

The Secret Service Mole

Dutch report has done some extensive research in open sources concerning the Dutch secret service mole. Here are our findings:

Earlier the NRC newspaper already quoted out of the justice investigation report the secret service mole, Othman Ben Amar (Alternative spelling: Outman Ben Amar). Last Monday the first preliminary court hearing revealed even more facts. The court rejected the request of the prosecution to hold a secret trial. The justice department is still investigating and the trial is to expect to start in April.

The double agent
Othman Ben Amar, born in 1970 in Beni Abdellah (Alternative spelling Beni Abdella) in Morroco, is now 34 years old. Othman did come to Holland when he was 4 years old. He has three brothers: Kadir, Mustapha and Soliman, who all live in Holland and all work for the Dutch government. Othman is married with, Hafida Bentala Ben Amar, a Moroccan from Beni Bougahie near Nador. Together they have a two year old daughter, named Armi. They have their domicile at at De Wellenkamp in the city of Nijmegen. His neighbor says he is not a fanatic Muslim, "He was equally fanatical religious as someone who only goes with Christmas to church". His wife, 33 years old, studied medical Biology in the city of Groningen. The Telegraaf reports that secret service sources say she comes from a notorious family.

After his study Arabic language and culture at the Radboud University (KUN) in Nijmegen Othman he worked for several Dutch travel agencies and worked as an Arabist at the department of Immigration and Naturalization (IND) in the city of Nijmegen (Internet rumours say he also worked for the "Arbeidsbureau" Employment office in the city of Roermond). With some co-workers, Moroccans and a Dutch convert he started the "Moslim Media Group", to stimulate a more balanced reporting about Muslims and the Islam in The Netherlands. He thought that after the 9/11 attacks, the reporting about Muslims was "incomplete and tendentious". Adviser of the group was the well-known Imam Adbullah Hazelhoef. According to the groups chairman Sjoerd Moenander he quit and told them that he had no time because he had become the travel agent and director of Chafarintours, organizing holiday tours to Morocco.

On 1 October 2003 he stopped his work as "consulting assistant" for the department of immigration and naturalization (IND) and joined the Dutch secret service, called AIVD. A relative had helped him to enter the AIVD and after a screening and a short introduction course he started as an interpreter. A little more than a year later he was arrested on 30 September 2004 and is being charged of spreading illegally secret service information. A unique and unprecedented case for the Dutch secret service who suspended him. So far they filed three times charges against him. Othman him self denies the charges, he is confident and angry. He finds it all deeply offending: "this is very unjust". He is now imprisoned and labeled an enemy of the state. He is not allowed to have any contact with the outside world, watch TV or read newspapers. But still he managed to send a letter from his prison to one of the three other suspects, by using a name of another prisoner.

His lawyers
His layers are Michiel Pestman and Britta Bohler. Britta Bohler, owner of the law firm, is well known for defending left wing extremist and terrorists. As former Green Peace chairman she has said in an interview that she used to have great sympathy for the extreme left Rote Armee Fraction(RAF) terrorists in Germany. Her office also defended animal rights activist Volkert van der G. who assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002.

During the first preliminary court sitting the lawyers complained that it was not possible to defend their client. In a letter of 9 November 2004 the secret service warned Othman that he would commit a crime if he would talk about his AIVD work, even in confidential conversations with his layers. The layers will also commit a crime if they tell this information to the Judge. The lawyers asked immunity from prosecution. But the prosecutor did not want to give immunity. The court will rule in this issue in two weeks.

Lawyer Pestman is allied with the notorious left wing, anti government and secret service research group: "Jansen en Jansen". He put some of the leaked AIVD material, part of his clients dossier, here online.

Center of Islamic Terrorism
A month after the 9/11 attack in New York the secret service (AIVD) started a new department: The Center of Islamic Terrorism (CIT). On 6 October the CIT started with fulfilling its task to research if such attack could happen in The Netherlands and to research if they could prevent such an attack. Soon after its start the involved CIT teams focused on 100 to 150 targets, persons or networks all are some how connected to radical Islamic terrorism. Othman went to work for the CIT.

His work
Othman was a translator of wiretaps made by the CIT. The department had a huge shortage of people who had command of Arabic and other dialects that the radical Muslims used. Othman could do his work with much freedom in this busy department. He is quoted in the justice files as saying: "I had to determine for my self if a conversation was important. I noticed that only a quarter of all material was processed. This also happened with material of the other co-workers. It has occurred that when a co-worker was on sick leave, the wiretap conversations where not processed at all, not even on a later point in time".

Code name: Vuursche
The CIT like all European secret services is hunting a group of Marrocan terrorist with the name: Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (GICM). The GICM was responsible for the 11 March 2004 train bombing in Madrid and the Casablanca bombing in May 2003. The dutch secret service was investigating a cell of the GCIM under the code name "Vuursche", also known as the Utrechtse terror investigation. The monitored group of Islamic friends under investigation met regularly in the Omar al Faroek-mosque (Utrecht) and El Tawheed (Amsterdam).

One of the members of the group is Othman his brother in law, former prison guard, Nadir B.(17-may-1976,Marocco). But the AIVD was not aware of this fact. In July 2004 Othman was put "suddenly and fairly abrupt" on the so-called Vuurche-case according to the justice file. For this case Othman needed suddenly to work on 15 wiretaps and he got very busy. He complained about this to his team leaders and said he could not handle it all, but they answered that he should solve it himself.

Central in this investigation is the 37 year old Morrocan and former Schiphol airport security guard, Hassan O. (1967,Morocco). In tapped recordings he was speaking about the Holly War, the explosives he would use for it and the bomb he had hidden for later use. "One time BOOM! And a big city is gone" by an attack of 50 suicide bombers, was the literal text in the AIVD transcription of an phone conversation he had with Iraqi Mohammed T.

The AIVD did want to know what Hassan O. did and what he was planning. The intelligence service determined that on 2 june 2004, he and Mohamed T. had taken pictures of the British and US embassies, the parliament and the Royal palace Noordeinde (All located in the city of Denhaag). Also Hassan O. his travel to Belgium where important for the investigation because there he contacted other cells and had looked at video tapes of the resistance in Pakistan and Iraq.

On Sunday 26 September 19.00 the police raided the house of Hassan O. and the house of his ex-wife, both in the city of Utrecht. They arrested him on the suspicion of possession and transportation of explosives. That same evening the police also raided the house of the Moroccan family Mbarki, in the Bucheliusstraat in the city of Utecht. Police searched the house for explosives. The Mbarki family, man, woman and their 8 and 18 year old sons, where arrested and two days later released. The police did not find any explosives and said they no longer did suspect the family.

The searching of the house and the arrest of the Mbarki family led too much commotion in the media. Parliament expressed there worries and questions where asked by the green party (Groenlinks) and D66. Burgomaster Brouwer of Utrecht signed a complain letter together with 40 Moroccans that condemn the stigmatization of the Moroccan people. The family took a lawyer to get indemnification.

Hassan O. and the son Khalid (18) of the Mbarki family had worked together as security guards at Schiphol airport. Together they traveled to Belgium where they met the 30 year old Aziz M. a brother of the mother of Khalid. Aziz M. studied French in Belgium and would be arrested on 2 October 2004 (later 3 others would be arrested in Belgium as well). The search for the GICM explosives continued.

The stolen documents
But during the raid on Hassan O. the AIVD found two typed letters that contained information from a secret service briefing of week 31. These state secrets where part of a 10 pages long AIVD report about the current knowledge in the Vuursche case that. The possible Islamic terror network in the city of Utrecht, they where monitoring since 2002. On one of the letters was written "Mouchabarad", Arabic for secret service. The address on the envelope, in which the two documents where send, was hand written and was posted in the city of Nieuwegein.

An internal AIVD investigation showed that Othman was responsible for sending the envelope with information that classifies as "state secrets". He was arrested four days later, on 30 September 2004, on his work the AIVD head office in Leidschendam. That same day also Abdel Aziz B.(17-nov-1969, Morocco), Rachid C. (14-sept-1973,Morocco) and his brother in law Nadir B. where arrested in connection with this case. Abdel Aziz B. a relative of the family living at the Bucheliusstraat in Utrecht and was arrested on Schiphol airport, he was planning to leave for Saudi Arabia.

In an interview in the AD (newspaper) of 20 November 2004, Abdel Aziz B. and Rachid C. say that they received the information half August in a letter without the name of the sender. Rachid C. his envelope contained 2 letters. Abdel Aziz B. says his letter contained a letter with a description of a meeting between him, Rachid C., Hassan O. and two others. Before they received the letters they did not know they where under surveillance. They took the letter to their Mosque and showed it to their friend Nadir B. The letters seem to be compilations of phone taps and observations. The reports describe them as dangerous, but they claim not to be radicals, they are just pious Muslims. They both have beards and wear traditional Muslim clothing. Abdel Aziz B. traveled to Pakistan in 1997, but at that time I was not yet religious, he says.

The justice investigation showed that the handwriting on the envelopes was the same as Othman's handwriting, DNA test did not give a positive but neither a negative result. Aziz B. and Rachid C. have given testimonials in which they say that they heard that similar information has gone to Amsterdam and Denhaag (The cities in which the Hofstad terror group operated). In December police commissioner J. van Kastel already said in the NRC newspaper that there where contacts between the "Hofstad" terror group and the Vuursche group. Nadir B., Abdel Aziz B. and Rachid C. where released from custody after 5 weeks, due to a lack of evidence. Hassan O. was released from custody on 8 November 2004. They are not allowed to leave the country.

It was not very surprising that the service found out of Othman's actions. Four weeks before his arrest, he told a co-worker that his brother in law Nadir B. knew some targets in the Vuursche investigation. He meant Rachid C. and Abdel Aziz B. of which his brother in law told him. Maybe it was a good idea to ask Nadir B. as an informant, he told this same co-worker. Four weeks had past when Othman heard that they had done nothing with his suggestion, they told him they where researching it and they would let him know. A week later he was arrested.

The investigation
After the arrest of Hassan O. an investigation with code name "Walcheren" was started to search for the AIVD mole. This search leads to the arrest of Othman, his house was searched and they found an AIVD wiretap report of January 2004. A copy of the same document was found in his desk at his Leidschendam office. In both cases the code name of the person who printed was erased with tipex like correction ink. But when put under a bright light they found the code name: AB1BE. The AIVD code name of Othman Ben Amar.

They also found in his house a pocket agenda and fax machine. In his agenda they found post-it notes with the names and addresses of people whom where part of AIVD research in Den Haag, Amsterdam and Utrecht (Vuurche/GICM and Hofstad group). One of the names found was that of Achmed H. who was living together with an other Hofstad member Mohammed Bouyeri. Only one month later, on 2 November, would Mohammed assassinated Theo van Gogh. Achmed H. was arrested after the murder on Theo van Gogh and now says he received the wiretap report in a closed envelope on his old living address, where his ex-wife lives. The Hofstad group also received information from a secret service briefing that informed about the current state of the investigation of the Hofstad group. Othman did not answer questions about his connection with Achmed H. who is seen as the financial man of the Hofstad group.

In the computer of Othman they found deleted e-mail messages that mention AIVD research and on an other location they also found a AIVD wiretaps report written by Othman. The contents of the messages and report are not part of the Justice report due to open investigations. They also found proof of sabotage, they found wiretap reports of which Othman had claimed that the contained no usefull information.

The Telegraaf newspaper revealed that the website chafarinastours.com (miror, webarchive) that Othman ran as agent of Cherafinas from his home office, was used to spread messages via a method called Stegonography. User of this technique can place messages into pictures and even can send complete blueprints of a potential target undetected. A program especially developed by the FBI to detect these messages triggered an alarm when it was used to investigate the website. Two of the pictures were labeled 'very suspicious' by the software. This is very unusual since the program usually never triggers alarms when it is used on randomly selected websites.

The police is also investigating his work at the department of Immigration and Naturalization (IND). From 1999 till 2003 he was working there as a "beslis" (decision) civil servant, who does decide independently about who is, an who's not, allowed to stay in Holland. Police is investigating at least one case, where he is believed to have provided an illegal Turkish national with a residence permit.

AIVD in trouble
The boss of the secret service, Sybrand van Hulst, was outraged when he first hearth of the case. He called it "a drama" and said: "I thought: oh no! I got a feeling of shame. This is very annoying for the service and for our image".

Van Hulst also said there was nothing wrong with the way the service screens new personnel and that up scaling had the risk of infiltration. "We screen very carefully but mistake can be made. Also: if we screen today, that does not mean that he is still loyal two years later". Earlier Sybrand said in a press release that the service keeps hiring Islamic and Moroccan people because the service needs to be a representation of Dutch society. He added: The AIVD will not discriminate.

Right.

Interview Wilders

Representative Wilders says in an interview with Elsevier that he wants to cancel the treaty of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, to make a tough response possible in order to fight terrorism and street violence. Wilders wants to expel immigrant youth who are involved in the street violence:

"There is no fundamental difference between the murder of Theo van Gogh by Mohammed Bouyeria and the street terrorism of Moroccan youth in for example the Diamand neighborhood. [Recently Moroccan youth forced a Dutch family to leave the Diamand neighborhood in Amsterdam] .It is not only the terror attacks that count, it is also the daily terror on the street that effects tens of thousand people in the small and big cities."

Wilders does not want temporary street prohibitions for young people or other soft half hearted measures:

"You have to arrest them and remove them from The Netherlands. But at the moment the government responded with social workers and neighbor homes. I say: just remove. If that is not allowed by the constitution, we have to change the constitution. If it is in violation with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, we have to retreat from it. The protection of Dutch families comes first".

The interview was conducted in Israel. Wilders visited the country to hear from Israeli civil servants and security experts what their answer is on the Islamic radicalism in The Netherlands.

They confirm him in his earlier conceptions: "Much worse things are about to happen. Their still is a lot of garbage below the Muslim carpet. Terrorism will not only cost human life, it wants to destroy the state and devastate our existence. "

Wilders says the Dutch secret service (AIVD) should recruit employees under Arabic Christians in Lebanon and Syria. "That is the best way to quickly infiltrate terrorist networks. Spy work is essential. The AIVD started way to late with it."

After the political murder of late Pim Fortuyn, it seems that people who want to start new political movements in The Netherlands, make sure they have some foreign support. Wilders is now in Israel and talking to other politicians. Earlier LPF (The party of murdered Pim Fortuyn) representative Nawijn, made contact with the biggest Belgium opposition party "Vlaams Belang", who seems to be able to protect it self against violence and government suppression. Nawijn, want to launch a new party, possible together with Wilders.

Source: Elsevier

More state secrets leaks

Remember the arrest of soldier Eric O. Who, shame on him, was the only Dutch soldier who shot a bullet in Iraq? Read here how he now takes aim on the corrupt Justice department and accuses them of leaking state secrets to the press.

Moslems go politics

A group Muslim from Amsterdam have announce they will run in the next election. The name of the new party is The Moslem Democratic Party (MDP). There spokes person is Mohammed Jabri who earlier came in the news with his anti gay manifesto. Read more here.

Bag with explosives found

Near primary school Globetrotter in the district Katendrecht in Rotterdam people found yesterday a bag full explosives.

Source: AD.nl

Assassination plan Hirsi Ali

The Islamic terrorist of the Hofstad group had planned to assassination Hirsi Ali on new years night, when there would be a lot of firework noise. The police found out of the handwritten assassination plan in November, a week after the arrest of the Hofstad terrorists. Employees of the bakery, where Hofstad terrorist Jermaine W. worked, found the letter. The manager of the bakery did not know what to do with the letter. But when a week later the police searched the bakery, he gave the letter to the police. The manager of the bakery emphasized that he did not know if the letter was from Jermain and said that Jermaine was "A super nice guy, who just did his job".

Source: nrc

Arrest for attack on Muslim school

The police has arrested an 21 year old man from Eindhoven and searched his house. They suspect him for involvement of the (firework?) bomb that exploded in the night of 7 to 8 November (2004) before the front door of the Islamic Tarieq Ibnoe Ziyad school in Eindhoven. The bomb destroyed the front door and windows of the school, no structural damage was done and as the bomb exploded in the middle of the night, nobody got hurt. The bomb lead to further unrest in the Islamic community.

Half December the police also arrested an 18 year old man from Eindhoven, who was labeled a 'Neo Nazi', but they had to release him quite soon after the arrest.

Update:
The arrested man is released and was not even charged, because the police had no evidence against him.

Maybe the police should look for Muslim suspects? It would not be the first time...

Source: De Gelderlander

Justice dossier assassination Van Gogh

The Dutch newspaper "NRC" had access to the justice investigation regarding the terrorist attack on Theo van Gogh and quotes directly out of the official report:

Dozen witnesses have delivered statements about the murder on Theo van Gogh. Here a reconstruction based on the police file.

Rotterdam, 8 January. "I know him", thought an English witness on November the second when he looked out of the window of his house on the Linnaeusstraat in Amsterdam. He had seen this man, who just shot Theo van Gogh, before, he told the police shortly after the murder. He had seen him three weeks earlier, when he was walking with his dog in the nearby Oosterpark.

On the corner near the shop "De Sleutelkoning" he had seen a Moroccan young man. A week later he saw the man standing there again on the same spot. The man wore the same cloths as at the time of the murder: a coat over a traditional Islamic dress and a small woolen cap. "He really attracted attention in that appearance", the witness declared. "When I looked out of the window, after I heard the shots, I recognized him directly".

It was busy when on the Linnaeusstraat on quarter to nine, when suspect Mohammed B. [*1] on his bike caught up with Theo van Gogh and from a close range opened fire on him.

In the police file are dozens of reports of eyewitnesses. They tell how B. followed, the wounded Theo van Gogh, on foot until they where on the other side of the road. How he shot again the now lying filmmaker. How he tried to decapitate the director with a big cap knife. How he pierced the cap knife and an other knife with a note attached in his body. How he calmly walked away to the Oosterpark when people in the Linnaeustraat panicked.

Some bystanders fled from fear. Others where nailed to the ground and saw how the culprit cleaned is hand with a bit of cloth and reloaded his gun with a new clip. At that time the thirty-year-old man who stepped out of the tram was already shot in his leg and a pedestrian was shot in her heel.

In the statements are contradictions.

Although Mohammed B. had shaved his head bold, one of the witnesses described the man who walked away as someone with "quite long dark hair". The reported number of shots, the culprit fired varies a lot. Some witnesses describe how the culprit kicked the lying Theo van Gogh in the side, after which he shot again. Others turn that around, he shot first then kicked.

But still do the statements deliver a reasonable consistent view on the murder, from the moment Mohammed B. catches up with the bicycling Van Gogh on the Linnaeusstraat until his capture on the Mauritskade on the other side of the Oosterpark.
There is one red line: nearly all witnesses where amazed by the unusually rest and control Mohammed B. showed.

"What I noticed was how calm and controlled the culprit was. It was chilling", says the British witness against the police. An other witness describes how Mohammed B. puts an enormous knife on the throat of Van Gogh en on a "calm and controlled way cutting movements" made. "It seemed if he was cutting of a slice of roast beef".

Different witnesses stated how Mohammed B. after the murder talked to a bystander who looked mesmerized when the shooter crosses the street in his direction. "What are you looking at?" says B. to the man, when he calmly refills his clip with new bullets, holding his gun under his arm.

"You can not do that?", says the bystander. "Why not?", answers B.: "He asked for it".

The bewildered by stander repeated his remark: "You can not do that?" "Yes I can", says B. "And now you know what is waiting for you all".

Moments later a police officer sees how B. quietly walks in the park with his hands in his pockets, "As if he was walking his dog". Because "there are woman and children in the park" the police decided not to arrest him but to pursue him. Only then Mohammed B. starts running in the direction of the Mauritskade, where a number of police officers block his way. An unmarked police car approaches zigzagging and close behind it a police van that is officially of the police dog brigades. Meanwhile an accidentally passing lorry driver turns his lorry and drives in on B., as he says in his own words: "too give him a small pad", but it is in vain. Several officers describe how B. now with two hands on his gun stands still and aims his gun at them. "Very quite and certain" says a policewoman. The police gets the full clip. One officer wearing a bulletproof vest is shot in the chest. An other bullet hits with a bang the police van. "Duck!", shouts the driver of the van and crawls under the dashboard. But he then realizes that he now is even a bigger shooting target and together with his partner he jumps out of the van and shoots at Mohammed B. who is standing on a distance of seven meters. He aimed at the legs of the suspect. "I wanted to shoot fast and granted myself no time to use the aiming device". The officer sees how B. tries to walk a way and falls down. The officer kicks the empty gun away and steps on the feeds of B. A police officer comes from his hiding position behind the now stationary lorry and handcuffs B. "In my leg", hears a officer say B. He sees the blood flowing.

The arrest was a setback for B. According to his will that he put on rhyme and carried with him it showed that he expected to die as a martyr in the fire fight with the police. It looks like Mohammed B. was quietly and definitely executed his plan. If the British witness indeed saw the 26 year Moroccan earlier, then murder was prepared weeks in advanced [*2]. Possibly others help him. Several witnesses state to have seen people who where possibly accomplices. A Turkish woman sees short before the attack, around 8.30, two suspicious Moroccan young man waiting, with the bicycles in their hands, in front of the town office. The woman sees "In front of the breast" of one of the two man "a handle sticking out", as if the man "has a big knife under his coat". The men look "some what suspicious around them" and "clearly belonged together" according to the Turkish woman. An other witness sees after the murder two traditional clothed Islamic young men with "striking flax beards" looking at the body of Theo van Gogh from the parking space at the town office. They speak with each other, call with a mobile phone and then walk away. Also other witnesses who reacted on the television showing of the picture of Mohammed B. have declared seeing suspicious men in the vicinity of the crime scene, say sources involved in the investigation.

After his arrest, Mohammed B. is brought to the VU hospital, where his leg wound is treated. Just before eleven he is brought up to the prosecutor. Later that day he uses the right to remain silent, a silence he has not broke since. In the VU hospital however he made a few self-incriminating statements. "I had one firearm and a knife with me", says B. according to the warrant. "The knife I left on the first place. The firearm I left on the place where I was shot down. I came out of the Oosterpark and gone left to the Mauritkade. I was near a publicity sign.

The following morning the first and only interrogation takes place in the Scheveningse prison with his layer Peter R. Plasman present. B is lying is his bed with an catheter to his arm, "Well", he says to the inspectors "I use my right to silence". He does not even wanted to confirm his identity he gave the other day. "Your are not mouth is not wounded", tries a detective. He asks about his address and motive for his action. "Did you know who you pierced? What are you thinking now? May I call you Mohammed?" Lawyer Plasman interfered and said, "I have discussed with my client that when he moment comes he wants to explain, that I will let you know immediately". "Is it possible he answers for him selves?" the inspector asks. That turns out not to be the case. The inspectors keep trying for a little while. "Do you take part in the Ramadan?" Silence. "How far where you willing to go?" B. stays silent. And the Ramadan? "It is a social question. For inter personal contact as we like to call that". Inspector: "Or are you not very well in communication?". Plasman: "At this moment my client is not so very good at communication".

Plasman does not want to comment on the witness testimonies, neither does the justice office.

During the autopsy it was discovered that Theo van Gogh was transpierced seven times. In his fuselage he had two stabbing wounds, in his throat "at least two deep cuts to the spine. Except for "extensive damage" to bowels, kidney, liver and milt, also both his lounges where perforated. Both the shot wounds and knife-inflicted wounds could have caused his dead, the autopsy report observes.


*1) Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch media does self sensor the last name of terrorist.
*2) Most likely in a period that he was still under surveillance of the AIVD. It was reported earlier that the AIVD had him under surveillance 2 weeks prior to the assassination.

Source: NRC, Intel-weblog

Gaos at Secret service

The NRC newspaper reports:

The Dutch AIVD (Secret Service) has not enough insight in what its interpreters do with the translated material. The interpreters are allowed to decide for them selves what taped phone conversations are to be kept and which not. The Volkskrant [newspaper] reports this today.

The newspaper has the statements of the arrested 34 year old AIVD employee and interpreter / translator Outman Ben A. who is suspected of leaking of state secrets to radical Muslims.

Outman Ben A., lived in Nijmegen and was of Moroccan descent, was arrested on 30 September 2004 for violations of state secrets and leaking information to terrorist suspects. Monday he must he appear for a pro forma meeting of the court of Rotterdam.

Outman Ben A. was to all likelihood involved in the Hofstad network [*] investigation. He would have leaked ultra secret reports to the members of this network in Amsterdam and Den Haag.

According to the reports that the newspaper (Volkskrant) has, shows that Ben A. did his work without guidelines and was allowed to determine for himself if a conversations was important or not. Because the shortage at the AIVD was so enormous that he soon after the start of his employment in October 2003, got an important role. The travel agent and former immigration and naturalizations (IND)
Civil servant was parachuted in an big terrorism investigation “without being trained on the job”.

On Saturday 25 September 2004 the AIVD received information that a person in a Islamic terrorist network had AIVD information.

The day after that the police raided the house of Hassan O. in Utrecht. There they found to papers (A4) with secret AIVD information.

On one of the letters that where found was written “Mouchabarad”, Arabic for secret service. After the arrest of Ben A. the AIVD downplayed the damage and called it of minor importance for the investigation. The justice file shows that the justice department suspects that there is much more information leaked.

* A member of the Hofstad network slaughtered Theo van Gogh. Other members are arrested for planning attacks on Representative Hirsi Ali and Wilders.

Source: NRC, intel.web-log

Random violence?

Recently there are reports of some unusual violence increase:

* This weekend there where 4 apparently random stabbings in Harlem. All victims where walking alone and knifed in the back. Read more here.

* Last night a woman was killed because a pavement flag was thrown on her windshield when she drove past a fly-over. Nearby at an other fly-over a bag of debris was thrown and hit a truck, the driver was not hurt. (Source: nu.nl).

* Last January a train crashed with a trafic sign, pole and bicle. In Nijmegen unkown people hang a pole with pivot wire on a fly-over. The driver got a eye injury. In February a train driver got hurt when an object was thrown to the cabin. Last october a train driver was hurt when unknown people attached a bench-vice to the high voltage overhead line. The Dutch rail company says that incidents like these are much more happening since this year (Source Elsevier)

Note: Dutch media never reports the background of these attackers.

Netherlands exporter of Math books

According to the biggest Dutch newspaper, De Telegraaf, The Netherlands is an important exporter of Math books. A new Dutch Math learning method is unexpectedly sudden a world wide success.

"In The Netherlands the children learn Math not by just repeating calculations, but by learning what is behind the calculation" according to directory Jan de Lange of the Freudenthal institute that created the new method. Their new method is used by several hundredth thousands of students in the USA and is also more and more used in other countries like Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, African an South-American countries. In April the institute will introduce the method in an International Math teachers conference in Disney Land.

The new Math method developed in The Netherlands will not be used in The Netherlands it self. De Lange: "We could also create a new Math book for the Dutch government [Dutch schools are all state controlled] but the government is not interested. They says to us, that we should take example to the American teaching method's. They do not seem to know that the highest scoring teaching district in the USA is already using our method for 7 years".

Source: Telegraaf, Nieuws.nl

Reverberations of a murder

In the Jerusalem Post Manfred Gerstenfeld wrote an article in which he says that the slaughter of Theo van Gogh "not only could change that country, but could have great international significance.".

Read here (Non member access: here) the full story.

What Theo van Gogh published

Theo van Gogh wrote a lot of columns and books, all in the Dutch language. The people from Militant Islam Monitor have translate some of the works of Theo van Gogh:

Column: How Come?
Column: Newsprint Murderers
Column: Lack of Respect
Column: This and That
Column: May I say this?
Theo plays Islamic Imam
Interview: 'I like functional insults'
Book: 'Allah Knows Best'
Submission

April 1: Anti Terror Exercise

On April the 1st their will be the first big live anti terror exercise. The exercise in Amsterdam has the code name 'Bonfire' and is must test the cooperation and communication between the different government organizations.

Next week there will be an international anti-terror training in Washington (USA). Klaas de Vries (Socialist), the former minister of Domestic affairs who was responsible for the security of Pim Fortuyn, will have the role of prime minister in the simulation.

Source: Telegraaf

Moroccan Spy at secret service

The Moroccan Outmar Ben A. who worked as a translator at the Dutch secret service (AIVD) was arrested September last year, for leaking classified information to Islamic terrorists. A Dutch newspaper now reports that he will be charged for spying right from the start of his employment, 1 October 2003. Outmar Ben. A. as a new translator got full access to secret documents on Islamic terrorists. It is known that the murderer on Theo van Gogh had received information from an AIVD source.

The head of the Dutch secret services, Sybrand van Hulst, says in a press release that the service will keep hiring Islamic and Moroccan people because the service needs to be representation of the Dutch society. The service will not discriminated!

See also:
The Secret Service Mole

Source: Elsevier, AIVD

Rep. Hirsi Ali evacuated to USA

It is reported in the Dutch Newspaper 'De Volkskrant' that after the murder on Theo Van Gogh, Representative Hirsi Ali is brought out of the country on November 10th. That day the Dutch security forced raided Terrorist homes of cell members of the murderer of Theo van Gogh.

She fled the country by an Orion of the Dutch Marine. Airplane hobby spotters have seen the plane leave from airfield Valkenburg near Leiden. According to the radio contact with the tower the plane embarked to American Marine base Brunswick in the USA.

What kind of parliament allows that their members need to flee the country?

Update: International Media links: IOL (South Africa)

Government personal protection services doubles

The head of the Corps Nation wide Police Services (KLPD) wants to double it sizes of Royal and Diplomatic security force. This is the only government services that gives personal security. The services is now employs 200 people and wants to grow as soon as possible to 250 people. Head of the KLPD, Zunderd says he wants to recruit ex-commando troopers and military police personal. They also plan to extend the anti terror intelligence and anti terror response units.

Source: Volkskrant

Netherlands Case study of failed policy

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs writes:

Radical Islam in The Netherlands:
A case study of Failed European Policy

Read story: Here

Dutch government started Arab media

Dutch government owned World Radio (Wereld Omroep) has launched an Arab language website. I can not understand Arabic but it contains pictures of Representative Ayaan Hirsi Ali, murdered film maker Theo van Gogh, murdered politician Pim Fortuyn, chairman Abou Jaja of the radical Arab European League. It's contains seem to be different from the normal Wereld Omroep website.

www.aljesr.nl

If anyone can read Arabic let us know what they write in Arabic about Hirsi Ali, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.