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Somali refugee follows in Fortuyn's footsteps with attack on imams (Filed: 11/01/2003) After losing Pim Fortuyn, the maverick anti-Islamist politician, last May to Holland's first political assassination in 400 years, Dutch security services are taking no chances with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The slender, soft-spoken Somali refugee, 32, now a star Liberal candidate for parliament and certain to be a winner in this month's general election, lives behind a screen of well-concealed bodyguards. Shortly after Mr Fortuyn, a flamboyant television commentator and gay rights activist, was shot, his movement vaulted to second place in a general election. It has since disintegrated...