Dutch parliament buildings hermetically sealed by policeWhat if the poison gas bomb explodes inside the hermetically sealed building?
It will be like Mars Attacks!
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?
Wow, hermetically sealed?
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.
Glad to see the Dutch cleaning house.
Well THIS will be interesting...thanks for the post.
Let me guess its the Buddhists again--/sarcasm
What? Guns in Europe?
Somebody didn't get the memo.
Maybe Joran is pulling an O.J.
All kidding aside, glad to see some in the EU grow a backbone and go after evil.
There go those darn Mormons again.
October 14, 2005
Holland's problem
Reports coming from Holland today indicate that Dutch authorities have carried out anti-terror raids in various cities, arresting seven individuals between The Hague and Amsterdam. Officials have revealed that the main target of the operation is 19-year-old Samir Azzouz. Azzouz is the enfant prodige of the so-called Hofstad group, the maxi-cell responsible for the assassination of Theo van Gogh and other attempted attacks in Portugal and Holland, and the living example of the inadequacy of the Dutch anti-terrorism system. At age 16 Amsterdam-born Azzouz attempted to join the mujhaeddin fighting in Chechnya with Abdelaziz Beniyach, a leading GICM member, but the two were arrested by Ukrainian custom officers before reaching the Caucasus. Once back in Holland, Azzouz was arrested a first time in the fall of 2003 along with Mohammed Bouyeri, the future killer of Theo van Gogh, but both men were immediately released for lack of evidence. By the first months of 2004 17-year-old Azzouz had become one of the key elements of the Hofstad group. According to Dutch authorities, he had begun surveiling key installations throughout the Netherlands that were suitable targets for attacks. In June, he was arrested in connection with the robbery of the small supermarket where he worked, and police searched his Rotterdam apartment. Investigators found a gun, two ammunition clips, night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, and chemicals commonly used in making bombs. They also found sketches and floor plans of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, the headquarters of the AIVD (Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, Dutch intelligence agency), the parliament and Defense Ministry in The Hague, and a nuclear power plant in Borssele.
Dutch prosecutors, who tried Azzouz as an adult, asked for a sentence of seven years. They also demanded that Azzouz be denied his voting rights for twelve years, an unusual request that they argued was justified because he had tried to “attack democracy.” But as often happens in terrorism trials in the Netherlands, the Rotterdam court acquitted Azzouz, sentencing him to only three months for illegal possession of firearms, a term he had already served. Exiting the courthouse with his wife, Azzouz celebrated his release by punching a freelance photographer and knocking him unconscious against a parked car.
The recently published 2004 Dutch intelligence report clearly states that “The AIVD considers this radical Muslim as one of the core members of the Hofstad group.”
Today’s events clearly show both Azzouz’s dangerousness and the Dutch legal system’s inability to deal with the severe terrorist threat it is facing.
Posted by Lorenzo Vidino at 12:09 PM | Permalink
From:http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/10/hollands_proble.html
how DARE those imperialistic Dutch. Their "bring it on" attitude will just encourage more Terror.
Seven lone, unrelated suicide attempts.
Looks like folks in the Netherlands are finally getting the message.
Dutch parliament buildings hermetically sealed by policeDo they fear a ricin gas attack?
Dutch parliament buildings hermetically sealed by policeWhat if the poison gas bomb explodes inside the hermetically sealed building?
It will be like Mars Attacks!