Posted on 10/14/2005 4:38:26 AM PDT by Eurotwit
AMSTERDAM — Shots were fired as police raided a building on the Moerweg in The Hague on Friday.
Dutch parliament buildings hermetically sealed by police
Witnesses reported seeing masked men with automatic weapons entering a flat complex on Moerweg which has been sealed off by the police. Radio 1 News was told of people hearing gunfire.
The police in The Hague have declined to comment at this stage about the reports. A spokesperson would only say police operations are taking place at several locations in the city. She would also not confirm that a raid was carried out at a school on Van Ostadestraat.
It is unclear if these raids are connected to the sealing off of parliament buildings in The Hague.
14 October 2005
AMSTERDAM — Police officers and members of the specialist Mobiele Eenheid sealed off the parliament complex in The Hague on Friday morning.
Shots fired in Hague raid
No reason has been given for the closure of the 'Binnenhof'.
Haaglanden police department has referred all questions to the office of the national anti-terrorism Coördinator (NCTb).
But a spokesman there declined to shed any light on the matter. "What you see is what you see," he said. He indicated the situation would be clarified later on Friday.
Sources have told news agency ANP that there is a "heightened threat" but there is no further information on what this threat is.
Parliament buildings (file picture) As far as the media is aware there are no high-level meetings or major foreign officials scheduled for the Binnenhof or in the Dutch parliament on Friday. The Cabinet is to hold its weekly Friday meeting in the Trêves-zaal.
Parliament does not meet on Friday and few MPs are in and around the Binnenhof by the end of the working week. One door into the parliament (De Tweede Kamer) is locked and members of the Mobiele Eenheid are guarding the entrance on Het Plein (the square).
Police officers are also stopping and checking passing cars.
have any more info on this?
SKy News reports that 7 people are in custody after a number of anti-terror raids...
Good. Thanx.
Wow, hermetically sealed?
hmm. Sky News reporting there is shooting in Hague...
Seven held in anti-terror raids in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM — Seven police were arrested during raids by elite anti-terrorism police in the Netherlands on Friday.
The operation was designed to prevent terror attacks. It was ordered by the national detective unit as part of an investigation into a terrorist organisation, a spokesperson for the office of the public prosecutor (OM) said.
The suspects were held in Almere, Amsterdam and The Hague. Six of the suspects are men, aged 18 to 30. The seventh is a 24-year-old woman. One of the men is 19-year-old Samir A., the OM spokesperson said.
A. was cleared by a court earlier this year of charges he was plotting terrorist attacks on a nuclear power station and other key installations in the Netherlands. He is considered the main suspect in the latest investigation.
Reports received by the Dutch intelligence service AIVD suggested, the OM said, that A. was trying to obtain automatic weapons and explosives.
Due to the perceived danger, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner granted permission for the use of elite BBE-SIE police units to carry out the arrests.
Earlier on Friday, it was reported shots had been as police raided a building on the Moerweg in The Hague.
Dutch parliament buildings sealed by police
Witnesses reported seeing masked men with automatic weapons entering a flat complex. The Moerweg had been sealed off by the police. Radio 1 News was told of people hearing gunfire.
Also on Friday, police sealed off parliament buildings in The Hague.
" Seven police were arrested ..."
?
If the Milosovic trial is anything to judge by they will be in jail ten years before they get convicted.
The Hague--what a joke.
Ping
Glad to see the Dutch cleaning house.
Yes, hermetically sealed, for your protection.
(If I knew how I'd post a picture of a toilet seat here)
Well THIS will be interesting...thanks for the post.
Yeah, saw that too plus a few others maybe the translation?
My guess is a gaggle of Mohammeds
Actually, they will probably by tried, convicted, and sentenced in the time it takes to go through pre-trial discovery and jury selection here in the States. And I doubt Milosevic was prosecuted under Dutch law.
Look out for A. .... BC&D can't be far behind.
Let me guess its the Buddhists again--/sarcasm
What? Guns in Europe?
Somebody didn't get the memo.
ya think?
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