Posted on 10/14/2014 10:31:11 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
THE HAGUE: The Dutch public prosecutor said Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling ISIS in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime.
"Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it's no longer forbidden," public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.
"You just can't join a fight against the Netherlands," he told AFP after reports emerged that Dutch bikers from the No Surrender gang were fighting ISIS insurgents alongside Kurds in northern Iraq.
The head of No Surrender, Klaas Otto, told state broadcaster NOS that three members who travelled to near Mosul in northern Iraq were from Dutch cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda.
A photograph on a Dutch-Kurdish Twitter account shows a tattooed Dutchman called Ron in military garb, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle while sat with a Kurdish comrade.
Video footage apparently from a Kurdish broadcaster shows an armed European man with Kurdish fighters saying in Dutch: "The Kurds have been under pressure for a long time."
Many countries including the Netherlands have been clamping down on their nationals trying to join ISIS jihadists who have taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Measures include confiscating would-be jihadists' passports before travelling and threatening prosecution should they return.
"The big difference with ISIS is that it's listed as a terrorist group," said De Bruin.
"That means that even preparing to join ISIS is punishable."
Dutch citizens could not however join the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), as it is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and much of the international community, De Bruin said.
Dutch citizens fighting on the Kurdish side would of course be liable to prosecution if they committed crimes such as torture or rape, De Bruin said.
"But this is also happening a long way away and so it'll be very difficult to prove," said De Bruin.
NOW we’re talk’n
I would think the Bikers would be high in intensity and low in numbers compared to ISIS. Hopefully, there are enough to make a dent in ISIS murderous march. Obama has not had any luck while dropping bombs in those unoccupied shelters.
Years ago (as a teen) I used to wonder what we could do in an all-out war with the Soviets to help turn the tide. One of the solutions was to airdrop 10,000 or 20,000 motorcycle gang members all over Russia, with all the guns and ammo they could carry, and promise them $1,000 for every soldier they could prove they killed...and a look the other way on any other damage they might commit.
Maybe the Dutch have somethig here.... :>)
I wouldn’t recommend cheering for the Kurds all too much until you’ve had few 100k of them infesting your country.
In Europe they’re mostly welfare dependent while celebrating such cultural highlights like “honor killing”, inbreeding, forced marriage, drug dealing, armed robbery, burglary, extortion, white slavery, and perpetrating murder and sundry crimes to the detriment of their host countries. Few ever bother to learn the local language beyond the most rudimentary, as they tend to live in large clans (1000+ in some cities). Threats of violence against the judiciary tends to keep them out of jail.
He's not bright enough to dance to the Taquilla song, He thought it was a song about taqiyya so he just sat there.
The bikers killed him.
That's how Muhummad’s Big Adventure ended.
...I think Sean Penn played the lead.
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