Quiet Teen to Terrorist Suspect: Son of African American Held After Dutch Raid Suspected Muslims

Washington Post ^ | December 5, 2004 | Keith B. Richburg

[Cableguy]

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands -- Jason Walters was the consummate outsider, his neighbors recalled, the loner who never quite fit in, the one the other kids liked to bully at school. He was the son of a black American father and a Dutch woman, and had few friends. He was pro-American, they said, perhaps because of his father.

Suddenly last month, Walters, 19, was arrested after a violent hours-long standoff with police, in one of a series of raids on suspected Muslim terrorist cells following the Nov. 2 assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an alleged Muslim extremist.

According to police, Walters had his own plans to assassinate Dutch political figures he deemed anti-Muslim, and his hit list included two members of parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a native of Somalia, and Geert Wilders. Both, like van Gogh, had been outspoken critics of Islam in the Netherlands, particularly its treatment of women.

Police said Walters was a member of the Hofstad Network, a loosely knit local Muslim group influenced by al Qaeda whose members included Mohammed Bouyeri, a young Moroccan immigrant who was arrested in the van Gogh slaying.

When police tried to arrest Walters on Nov. 10 at an apartment in The Hague, the Dutch capital, he threw a hand grenade into the street, wounding three officers. And when police finally brought Walters, shirtless and blindfolded, from the apartment -- along with another suspect, Ismail Akhnikh -- residents of his old neighborhood back in Amersfoort said they were shocked that the quiet teenager they used to see on the streets had drifted down the path to anti-Western militancy.

[dagnabbit]

I wonder if this P.O.S. is an American Citizen? If so, it means our tax dollars will be spent sending U.S. diplomats to visit his worthless hide in prison.

[txhurl]

bttt

[steplock]

Did the Netherlands actually use the term "african american" ??? Or is that a translation by leftist pigs here in the USA?

only here in the USA are there such animals as "hyphenated-Americans"

[cyborg]

Technically he's a Dutch-American... not that the media ever cared about accuracy.

[cyborg]

Well the writer is a black American so maybe that's why.

[Proud Infidel]

Another one who hates it when people warn against Islam and portray it in a bad light - so he plans to kill them to prove them right.

[TheMole]

The only place the term "African American" appears is in the sub-headline. Headlines are almost always written by editors, not reporters. Richburg is actually one of the better writers at the Washington Post (yes, some would say that is faint praise). It's an interesting story, with a lot of facts I didn't know. it's worth clicking on the link.