Posted on 01/18/2006 4:03:42 AM PST by unionblue83
Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch Moroccan who savagely slaughtered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, has already been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now a new trial underway in Amsterdam aims to determine whether Bouyeri acted alone.
There is ample reason to doubt that he did. Specifically, the prosecution seeks to determine the extent of Bouyeri’s involvement with a group of radical Muslims known as “The Hofstadgroup.” The question before them: Did Bouyeri act on his own, or did he conspire with other members of the Hofstadgroup to murder van Gogh?
Rumors abound, but there is no hard evidence. Nor are the proceedings hastened by the fact that the members of the Hofstadgroup are seemingly bound by an oath of silence. Another possibility, suggested by recent courtroom developments, is that they simply fear one another: In the cutthroat code of extremist Islam, betrayal can mean death.
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