THE RAVENSTEIN
BEAUTIES
A Historical Nightmare
by
Internet and David Verveer
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It started out as a parable, to demonstrate the danger of Radical
Islamic Terrorism.
To my surprise, most of the fiction used in my parable, turned out to
be somehow, historically correct.
Most of the material used in this work was obtained from newspaper
articles on the Internet.
I do not hate Islam and Islamic people, I do not understand them, and I
am worried of their goals.
Here in
ourselves, even though, the world blames us for cruelty.
the radical Islamic forces, without them realizing it.
Part 1 of this work, are news stories that occurred in realty over the
last 10 years in
immigrant rights?
PLEASE WAKE UP!!
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| PART 1 |
Introduction
It all started with a email response by a Dutch friend during the 2nd
I decided to write a short fictional Belgium / Dutch border dispute, initiated by growing Islam terrorism in Europe, kindled by vague (and fictional) historical claim by Belgium, and exploited by Islamic terrorists in order to terrorize the region, all based on pure fiction, my sick mind , etc., however I was in for a big surprise.
The Dutch /
I built up the story, basing it on fictional peoples and combining it with historical events, but to my surprise when I started to do some research on those fictional events, I found to my utter astonishment that most of them are somehow based on facts, occurring the last ten years and still going on today.
I am today convinced that growing Radical Islam idealism in Western Europe is an undeniable fact and the past war in
1 - Even-though the "Ravenstein" story is based on historical facts, the area is never been claimed ((as far as I know) by
2 – The Political strength of Radical Islam in Belgium and Holland is still relatively controllable, but we have to realize, they (the Muslims) do not play according the democratic principles, even though, some of them are democratic elected (just as the Nazi party in Germany).
3 – I combined some interactions between Muslims and local population in order to compare my story with events of the Lebanese war. Some of those events have not (yet) occurred.
4 – Of course, some of the names I used in this story are fictions (I hope) .
5 – Let us hope that my current pessimistic understanding of the world and local political situation are caused by non comprehension of the situation, and that we are starting now a period of lasting peace and tranquility.
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6 –And please remember, when we were children, the Nazis were the bad boys endangering the world, later on, the Russian communists took over, which were replaced by the Chinese and North Korea, now we worry about the Islam, it appears we need a frightening growing power, in order to be satisfied with what we have today.
7 – But friends, wake up, we are invaded, occupied and threatened, and being nice and humanistic, wont help this time. The 9/11, the London bombings, the Paris Riots, the Madrid train explosions, the attempted in -flight attacks, the bomb attacks in Turkey, Tunis, Bombay, Argentina, etc. etc., are not local affairs but a clear orchestrated and planned pattern of organized international terrorism. This occurs according a scheme in comprehensible to our Western reasoning.
David Verveer,
August 2006 / May 2007
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The “Ravenstein Beauties”.
The “Ravenstein Beauties” were an independent state / princedom ( from 1360 until 1800) during the "Ancien Regime and followers" situated near the today large industrial town of
In one of the many local wars, (1393) the ruler of “Ravenstein” was captured and imprisoned by the “Duce of Kleef”, who than became the new owner of “the Beauties of Ravenstein” .
In the “Gullik-Kleef” struggle , caused by childless death in 1609 of “John William of Kleef and Gullik”, the Spanish armies (in 1621) conquered the property.
In 1624 the territory went to “the
In my story, the new
The castle of “Ravenstein” was completely dismantled in 1889.
According to records I found, the last owner of the entire estate (the Beauties) was Baroness Josina Geertruida van Nassau Latecq, the last descendant of an illegitimate branch of the Dutch Royal Family (bastard son of Mauritz of Orange Nassau, brother of William I, leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish).
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The above mentioned Lady was forced to sell her estate, due to enormous debts inherited from her father Baron Louis Theo II van Nassau Latecq. It is not known to whom the estate (the beauties) were sold. This must have taken place between the years 1795 and 1800.
The
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RAVENSTEIN This was a small barony in the northeast of the Dutch
· Diederik of Renen................................ 12th cent.
· Sophie (fem.)............................. fl. 1191-1203
· CUIJK
· Albert (I).............................. fl. 1191-1233
· Rutger I................................ fl. 1226-1267
· Albert I................................ fl. 1268-1297
· Rutger II............................... fl. 1301-1324 with...
· Albert II............................... fl. 1278-1308
· Maria (fem.).............................. fl. 1315-1327
with...
· VALKENBURG-CLEVES
· John......................................... 1328-1356
· Walram....................................... 1356-1378
· Reinald...................................... 1378-1396
· SALM
· Simon............................................ 1396 d. 1397
· To
· CLEVES-Ravenstein
· Adolph....................................... 1448-1492
· Philip....................................... 1492-1528
· To
· To
· To Palatinate-Neuburg........................ 1629-1742
· To Palatinate-Neuburg-Sulzbach............... 1742-1777
· To
· To
· To
· To
· To
· To Kingdom of the
In the twentieth Century “Ravenstein” town became a bustling important industrial center, situated on an important train junction (German Industrial Ruhr Area, Belgium Coal and Steel Mines connecting Western Holland,
In the early eighties,
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Security yes, but the Dutch never considered possible terrorism until February 1972. This brings me to the next story on Ravenstein, slightly relevant to my thesis.
Terrorism in Ravenstein
As mentioned before, the security of the Ravenstein Gas Station involving the prevention of accidental fire and explosions was one of the highest in the world, but it never conceived to cover danger of terrorist actions. Who, in his right mind would try to blow up the Dutch Gas production network, why even consider it, just like other public buildings and transport (excepting international flights) that are not (yet) secured in
Small non important radical action groups were suspected, such as the leftist Red Youth action group, but soon cleared from suspicion. A few weeks later, a similar terrorist act in
The Interpol succeeded in determining that the explosives used in all these attacks were Russian made, and used by terrorists in the
In November '72, two people were arrested in
The Dutch Police requested that the prisoners to be transferred to their jurisdiction, but the French refused on grounds that murder is a far more serious crime.
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A peculiar fact is that there are no records of the French ever prosecution the case, nor were the French prepared to relate what happened to those terrorists. 
The reason that the gas-pipe explosion caused relatively minor damage was due to a lack in comprehension of the terrorists on explosiveness of pressurized "heavier than air" bio-gas, which needs availability of huge quantities of oxygen, in order to sustain a major explosion.
Until now, no one knows why the
(Most of the data comes from an article by Karin van Born)
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The town of “Maaseik” in
We now go to a pastoral small town, 100 km east of Ravenstein, up river the Meuse, just over the Dutch border in
Upon a morning in 2004, the phones of the town police station started ringing, and panic stricken people started to shout that black hooded masked people walked in the main square, and scared the children (and parents) to tears.
It turned out that those 6 hooded people were female Islamic residents of Maaseik, who were displaying their Muslim piety by wearing "burqas", garments that veiled their faces, including their eyes.
After the calm was restored, the mayor of Maaseik summoned those 6 women to his office, where he pointed out that he did not object to their garments, but covering of the faces, was not permitted. The women objected, and pointed out that they were the true believers of the holy book, the Quran, where is written that women should cover their faces in order not to appear attractive for other men, other than their husbands.
What was not known to the elders of Maaseik that the husbands of those ladies recently had joined a radical Islamic movement, and terrorist organization, which was spreading its wings across
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In Maaseik lived at that time approximately 800 people from Moroccan origin in a population of total 24,000 inhabitants. They built a new Mosque, and imported a radical sheikh (Islamic priest) who converted his flock to a terrorist cell. In addition, a known terrorist named Haski choose his domicile in Maaseik.
Over the next 6 months the Belgium police arrested 5 men, charged with membership in a terrorist organization, (the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group), a fast growing network known by its French initials "GICM".
The Rumors that radicals were living in Maaseik spread to the offices of the Belgium State Police in
In November 2003, several key figures in the GICM traveled to Maaseik from
Among those attending the meeting was Lahoussine Haski, a Moroccan with a history of fighting for radical Islamic causes in
After months of hiding out in
European intelligence officials acknowledged they had under estimated the presence of Moroccan radicals. In the next two years, police broke up GICM cells in
In April 2004, French police arrested six alleged GICM members in
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After a routine records check, officers discovered he was wanted on a terrorism warrant in
With each arrest, the police discovered fresh evidence that made the small town of
The Interpol is convinced that the Maaseik terrorist organization is the core of most of the current Islamite terrorist activities in
In early June 2004, the
More arrests followed. In July 2004,
In December, Spanish police arrested Haski's brother, Hassan Haski, in the Canary Islands and charged him with trying to set up another GICM cell to launch attacks on the
In Maaseik, residents still find it hard to believe that their town served as a hub for an international terrorist network. In attempt to contain extremism, the town passed a law that bans anyone from wearing a burqa. Five of the six Maaseik women who kicked off the burqa controversy have agreed to obey the ordinance. The only holdout: Samira Haski, wife of one of the GICM defendants and sister of another. She is challenging the measure in court.
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The Diamond Trade in
200 km west of Maaseik is
In the American daily, The Washington Post of November the second, the following heading could be read. "The "Al Qaeda" terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden, has reaped millions of dollars in the past three years from illicit sale of diamonds mined by rebels in
Diamond dealers working directly with men named by the FBI as key operatives in the bin Laden' "Al Qaeda" network bought gems from the rebels at below-market prices and sold them in large profits in
Small packets of diamonds, often wrapped in rags or plastic sheets, are taken by senior
The diamond dealers are selected by Ibrahim Bah, a Libyan trained former Senegalese rebel and the
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Bah has a distinguished terrorist background, from fighting with the Casamance separatist movement in Senegal in the 1970th, trained in Libya by Gaddafi, spend several years in the early 1980th fighting alongside Muslim guerillas against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Bah then joined the Iranian backed Hezbollah militia to fight Israeli forces in southern
The paper continues to explain the wide spread sales and involvement in international crimes and terrorism, on itself terrifying reading, but not directly related to our story.
From the above article we learn that since the 1998, when contact was made to finance the U.S. Embassy in
Footballer jailed at terror trial
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
A court in
convicted two other North African-born militants of being accomplices in the assassination by al Qaeda collaborators of Afghan rebel commander Ahmed Shah Masood in 2001.
A total of 18 accused Islamic militants, mainly of North African origin, were convicted of a range of offences in
Prosecutors said Trabelsi, 33, who played for German Bundesliga team Fortuna Dusseldorf in the 1980s, met al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden several times in Afghanistan before accepting the suicide mission. He was arrested in
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"He tried to commit one of the most heinous crimes
Because
Maaroufi had already spent time in a Belgian prison for trafficking arms to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which is fighting to overthrow the military-backed government in
Journey of Belgian female 'bomber'
Muriel Degauque, who is believed to have died in Baghdad as an Islamic suicide bomber at the age of 38, grew up near the Belgian factory town of
A neighbor remembers her as an "absolutely normal" little girl who liked to go for sled rides when it snowed. The woman whose passport was reportedly found at the scene of the failed suicide attack converted to Islam when she was in her 30s. She became "more Muslim than Muslim" after meeting her second husband and grew increasingly estranged from her family, her mother Liliane Degauque told Belgian and French media.
Her husband Issam Goris, a Belgian of Moroccan origin, is believed to have been shot dead in
No TV, no beer
Muriel grew up Monceau-sur-Sambre, near
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She would wear a head-to-toe chador and insist on eating separately from her own father when at home, where "there could be no question of turning on the TV or opening a beer", her parents said. When her mother spent time in hospital, she never visited her and later said she had had no "time for that".
Early trauma
A neighbor told
Dyab Abou Jahjah, the Islamic political leader
Our next story, after having discussed the creation of various Islamic movements and their actions, and after we reported how they were financed, we will now discuss the politic power, for which we remain in
But before going into politics and tell you about Mr. Jahjah and his friends, some facts and figures:
In
Quoting Hafid, a Belgium Moslem, "many of us are angry, you can't get a job, you can't get an apartment and most of the Belgians don't even speak to you. That is why a riot is like a party".
To his supporters, Dyab Abou Jahjah is a hero, a champion of
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Now, the man sometimes called the "Belgian Malcolm X" was attempting un-successfully to make a leap from activism to political office: He tried running for a parliamentary seat in a heated election in which immigration is a pivotal issue. Mr. Jahjah's confrontational style is forcing Belgians to consider questions echoing elsewhere in
He is Dyab Abou Jahjah, 31, born in
February, 2004 he is working his mobile phone in his sparsely furnished home in
Well, perhaps not. In November he was held for five days on charges of incitement to riot but released for lack of evidence.
"Recruiting is not hard," he said. "We're a civil rights movement, not a club of fundamentalist fanatics who want to blow things up. We're different because we are neither apologists nor extremists. We have such an appeal because we are filling a gap."
Mr. Abou Jahjah says he is part of a new generation of Muslim activists who are speaking out, frustrated with what they call discrimination, the lack of hope of finding a job, the problems of renting outside immigrant ghettos and, since Sept. 11, the distrust and even Islamic-phobia they feel.
Older immigrants who arrived from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey some 30 years ago, these activists say, have been too meek, too passive, co-opted by government funds or divided by ethnic or nationalist infighting.
The Arab European League founded by Mr. Abou Jahjah two years ago, aims to empower Muslim immigrants. He demands affirmative action in schools, in the workplace, in housing. His premise: Arabs in
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"The league's program calls on Muslim immigrants to resist pressures to integrate. "Assimilation is cultural rape," he said. "It means renouncing your identity, becoming like the others."
He finds inspiration in Malcolm X and his movement in the
Critics say the prime minister and the minister of interior have overreacted. Mr. Abou Jahjah's influence is overrated, they argue, yielding more publicity than sting. But Mr. Abou Jahjah says his Arab pride movement is already echoing elsewhere. His group has recently set up chapters in three Dutch cities, and he says he has been invited to
Articulate, fast-talking, self-assured, he is indeed different from many Muslims here, who have largely come from the interior of
"Most asylum seekers invent a story and I said I had had a conflict with the Hezbollah leaders," Mr. Abou Jahjah said. "It was just a low political trick to get my papers. Now they want to use this against me." His marriage to a Belgian woman was brief, but it gave him Belgian citizenship. His wife said later that she was tricked into the marriage and tried unsuccessfully to sue him. It is hard to know the truth.
Now he has a degree in political science and speaks five languages. He has done odd jobs for a trade union and an immigrant organization. His chief lieutenant, Ahmed Azzuz, is studying law. There are others who are well-versed in law and politics. The group's manifesto says, "You do not receive equal rights, you take them."
Mr. Abou Jahjah's demands — Islamic schools, bilingual education for Arab children, hiring quotas for immigrants — are resented in this small nation of 10 million that struggles with its own identity.
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"People freaked out over that," he said. "Why not," he added, with a quasi innocence. "There are 70,000 German speakers and more than 300,000 Arab speakers." That mix, he has been told, grew historically. "I say history is not over." Indeed, Mr. Abou Jahjah makes a point of causing consternation, above all in
Filip Dewinter, the outspoken leader of the Flemish Bloc, said Mr. Abou Jahjah must be stripped of his Belgian citizenship and deported "because he lied about his refugee status and had a phony marriage." Mr. Dewinter regards Mr. Abou Jahjah as "a foreign agent, directed and paid from abroad." At home, with his brother Ziad, a businessman, Mr. Abou Jahjah said the police had recently searched their homes and taken their computers, bank statements, "even Ziad's wedding pictures." There is nothing to hide, he said. Money comes from members in Belgium and several private donors in Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, whose names he has posted on the League's Web site, arabeuropean.org.
In May 2004, Jahjah ran un-successfully in the Belgian parliamentary elections. No, he did not intent to support any of the six Muslims — Turks and Moroccans — already in Parliament. "They never defended the rights of immigrants," he said. "They don't want to rock the boat.We do. We're not guests here. We are citizens."
Handsome, clean shaven, often dressed in jeans, Jahjah is a charismatic debater. With a master's degree in international politics and fluency in four languages, he has all the right European credentials. Since founding the Arab European League (AEL) several years ago, he has attracted a following of thousands of jobless, frustrated young immigrants who feel shut out by mainstream European society. The AEL now has growing branches in
Police have blamed Jahjah for fomenting racial violence. They have also investigated him for alleged links with criminal elements and for suspected funding from extremist organizations in the
The Muslim moderates, such as Mimount Bousakla, a young member of the
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Most Belgians first heard of Jahjah November 2003, after his arrest for allegedly inciting race riots after a mentally disturbed Belgian killed a young Islamic religion teacher. Five days later, Jahjah was released because of insufficient evidence. (The police could not find any people prepared to relate what was said during public meetings). This incident thrust the topics of immigration and prejudice- which the mainstream politicians had been reluctant to openly discuss- into the limelight, revealing deep cultural divisions and resentment between predominantly Catholic Belgians and the countries 450,000 Muslims. AEL activities have fanned many Belgians worst fears about the group's motives. Weeks before the October riots, the AEL organized Muslim civilian patrols to monitor alleged police brutality in immigrant neighborhoods in
In Antwerp, which Jahjah refers to as the international capital of Zionism, due to its large Orthodox Jewish population, the AEL organized a pro-Palestinian rally April 2004 that drew 3,000 young Muslims, with protesters chanting "jihad" and "Osama bin Laden" The march ended in riots in Antwerp's commercial center.
AEL was founded and is led by Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Lebanese-born Shi'a Muslim living in
studies in
"Some people call it a fight for god, some people call it a fight for mankind, in essence it is one and the same fight for freedom and justice." [
April 29, 2003
Terrorism, the AEL and porn
The Dutch secret service AIVD presented its annual report for 2002, spending considerable time on the threat of Islamic terrorism and the recruiting of terrorists in the
Despite recent successes in the battle against terrorism, Islamic terror networks are still capable of carrying out attacks all over the world, according to the 2002 annual report of the Dutch secret service AIVD.
Caretaker Interior Minister Johan Remkes presented the report to Parliament on Tuesday. The AIVD said radical Islamic networks are also active in the
The Dutch groups also recruit young men for the holy war, or jihad, against the "enemies of Islam," the AIVD alleged. This is a repeat of its claim, made in December 2002 that dozens of young Muslim men were in training.
But Dutch security authorities have not brought any alleged terrorists to justice since the September 11 attacks in the
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The Saudis have been financing a lot of this, even to the point where Dutch politicians are now calling for the government to take action against
One of the groups mentioned in the report is the Arab-European League, founded in Belgium and now establishing itself firmly in the Netherlands: The AIVD emphasized that groups — such as the Arab European League (AEL) in the Netherlands and Belgium — which play on creating a Muslim identity and religious or ethnic sentiment, are a security risk.
The leader of the Dutch AEL has not formally been instated yet, but it's likely to be Mohammed Cheppih, who is known to be funded by the Saudis in role as chairman of the Muslim World League in the southern Dutch town of Tilburg: Islamic centers in Amsterdam and Eindhoven have been singled out as particular hotbeds of Muslim extremists and a report in newspaper Het Parool said two hijackers involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, including Mohammed Atta, possibly received ideological training at the El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam. Wilders and VVD colleague Ayaan Hirsi Ali have demanded the mosque's closure. The Islamic conference was organized by a foundation which the intended chairman of the Arab European League in the
The AEL is a profoundly dangerous organization because its founder Abu Jahjah knows how to play the democratic game. He's not just another ranting zealot, but he's proving adept at using the rhetoric and paraphernalia of a bona fide democratic movement as a cover for his radical Islamism. But he does conform to one of the more culturally invariant features of shady populist leaders in that he does not really practice what he preaches. Abu Jahjah was under investigation in
The Islam influence in the
Although there has been a trend in this direction for some years, the murder of Theo Van Gogh accelerated the rise of explicitly anti-Muslim politics, reflecting skepticism toward the ability to integrate Muslims into the society and a critique of the formerly widely accepted ideals of cultural diversity. A parliamentary report determined that “multiethnic society had been a dismal failure, huge ethnic ghettos and subcultures were tearing the country apart and the risk of polarization could only be countered by Muslims effectively becoming Dutch.”
In
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Media Coverage and Intellectual Discourse: An issue has arisen with Muslim attitudes towards homosexuality.
Traditionally, the
Political Discourse
In the
In the kind of comment that is becoming more frequent, Fritz Bolkestein of the
Tariq Ramadan
Who is Tariq Ramadan? The question that French intellectuals and media outlets have been asking with accumulating force in the past two years is getting serious. In December 2003, Le Monde offered part of the answer: even as a Swiss national, he is the central figure of Islam in
It’s not just the French and European press that can’t make up their minds about Ramadan. Mohamed Sid–Ahmed in
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His answer is that the controversy around Ramadan – from accusations of anti–Semitism by French intellectuals to the parallel critique from within Islam that he is soft on
So who is Tariq Ramadan? He is, in the first instance, the 42–year–old grandson of Hassan al–Banna, founder (in 1928) of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values - often using violence in pursuit of this objective.
Hassan al–Banna’s moral example continues to exert enormous influence in
Tariq grew up in
Tariq Ramadan has written a dozen books, most recently Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (
As an active member of the European Social Forum, he has attracted the attention of Le Monde Diplomatique and the leaders of the anti–globalization movement – and criticism from some of the latter’s activists. He has emerged as a pole of attraction among
The swirling controversies that surround him in themselves reflect the key role that Tariq Ramadan is coming to play, as an ever more significant Islamic current develops in wary regard of establishment debates about the future of Europe – and what place there might be, or not be, for Muslims within the continent.
The Arabic European League
The Arab European League's Ahmed Azzuz tells Belgian Jews to stop supporting
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The community's support for
According to an Israel Channel 1 television report, the Jewish community is taking the threats seriously, and has already contacted elected Jewish officials, the local police and the nation's justice minister. A member of the Belgian diamond merchant’s community interviewed on the program confirmed reports that members of the Jewish community are afraid and at present, refrains from being outdoors during the nighttime hours. Peter Meeus reminded
December 10, 2002
The AEL spreads its wings
The Arab-European League (AEL) is an organization of radical Arab immigrants of the second generation, which found its origin in
That surprises you? Since the 80's [Moroccan] youngsters are educated to succeed their fathers on the factory floors. The Dutch educational system has failed. A difference is being made between immigrant and native youngsters. These are allowed to go to university, while most of the immigrants are sent to lower-level technical schools. Immigrants are being treated as a kind of Untermensch."
I am not a particularly big fan of the Dutch educational system (and my colleagues who have children in school are telling me it's getting worse), but it's not quite that bad. The complete refusal to accept any kind of responsibility for their own behavior and (lack of) achievements shows how thoroughly they've assimilated one part of Western culture: the vocabulary of victim-hood. The gratuitous reference to the Nazis is deeply revolting. When Zaghoubi and his family get shipped off in cargo trains to be exterminated in concentration camps, then he'd have the right to complain of being treated as an Untermensch. He continues: Dutch society is to blame for the societal problems caused by immigrant youngsters. That's why we have to increase awareness amongst Moroccan youngsters again the well-rehearsed language of victim-hood. The criminal is the victim. Society is to blame. Above all, don't accept responsibility for your actions, but try to get others to feel guilty instead.
Zaghoubi is also dismissive of the established immigrant organizations. As an example he says that when he wanted to organize an anti-American demonstration shortly September 11th (!), these organizations came out against him, because he was too radical, too militant.
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Thank heaven for that brief glimmer of sanity (or was it pragmatism?). The interview ends with the question why Moroccans in the
Belgian Muslims, Integration Through Diversity
In one of the upper-class neighborhoods of the Belgian capital,
As the luxurious conference halls of the council indicate, Belgian Muslims are considered by the royal family and government to be an important part of the political and social life of the country. Some draw an analogy, saying that the Muslims have taken the place of one of nine spheres of the Atomium, which is situated in the northern part of
The Atomium, or the iron lady as the Belgians call it, is a major tourist attraction in
In addition to the French speaking Belgians who represent the majority of the inhabitants in
"This linguistic and ethnic diversity is what allowed Muslims to have an important status in this country," Kissi Benjelloun, the vice president of the Muslim Executive Council and the official spokesman for Muslims in
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This confidence that the representatives of the council project go back in part to the fact that
The Belgian Experience
Despite the fact that since 1998, the Islamic Center no longer represents Muslims in the same way after the establishment of the executive official councils for Belgian Muslims, the center continues to be a symbol of the ability of the Muslim community in Belgium to integrate and coexist, especially because it's only meters away from the headquarters of the European Union.
Speaking to IslamOnline.net, the center's director, Abdel Aziz Al Yahye, said that the center has become multifaceted, playing a religious role. It also is home to Al-Ghazali Private School, the first of its kind catering to Belgian Muslims. The school is funded and supervised by the Ministry of Education. The center also includes a youth club for second and third generation Muslims as well as social services for families in need.
In comparison to many European countries, the political integration of Muslims in
In addition to being two federal ministers, one of Moroccan origin and the other of Turkish origin, there are many representatives of the Muslim community in the local parliaments, and the Belgian political parties are increasingly including large numbers of Muslims to their electoral lists. For instance, in the last Municipal elections in 2004, the Socialist Party in
Enjoying Electoral Weight
The parties' interest in Muslims and immigrants in general is attributed to the electoral weight that Muslims enjoy as a result of acquiring Belgian nationality. According to a recent study carried out by social researcher Nureya Wally from the
Belgian legislations are also advanced in comparison to its European counterparts in terms of Muslim integration. It has created laws since the first wave of immigrants who came in the 1960s to give them right to work.
Nevertheless, there are many challenges that face Muslims in
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Imitating
Speaking to Islamonline.net, Belgian Muslim activist Nazeeha Bin Turab blamed the Belgian elites for trying to imitate the French elite in rejecting the veil in public schools and offices. "There, Islamophobia is not new, but, on the other hand, we consider ourselves the children of this country and we have the right to work regardless of what we wear," she said.
According to a study conducted by a Belgian institute, part of which was published in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir on Feb. 20, 2006 the number of lawsuits related to job discriminations increased from 104 cases in 2000 to 150 cases in 2005. The center of equal opportunity in
"If we exclude the veil issue, the second and third generation Muslims have a good status and we don't think that there will be an uprising similar to what happened in
My Conclusions of above Part 1:
Part 1 relates un-related events which have taken place on both sides of the Dutch- Belgium border. These events are recorder without alterations or trying to build a framework of Islamic activism and terror. However, I need to make the following observations:
1 – We look at the behavior of people based on our Judeo-Christen Philosophy, with clear behavior pattern and a un-acceptable way of reasoning. I, however know, and see daily, as civilization’, (including questions such as value of life, human decency, loyalty to country and neighbor). What we regard as crime and non-human, the Islam considers permissible in order to reach the goal of establishment of the Islam as master religion, world-wide.
2 – Issues such as jihad (holy war on different thinking people), suicide murders, and martyr deaths and killing, family honor, the place of women in the society, burqa, etc. are unacceptable to us, but binding for the Muslim, irrelevant his social position and education.
3 - Agreements between Muslims and non believers have no value, and can be broken in order to serve the Islam cause.
Having said all this, I repeat the question, are the events related before, somehow connected and do they have not only a pattern but also a purpose, and if yes, what is their goal? Part 2 is partly fiction, in which I tried to create plot and environment, based on a parallel to what happened in my home country "
I hope that Jahjah, who left the scene of Europe in order to fight my country in the
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I tried to keep away from current El Qaeda plots, worldwide, such as the London, airplanes plot, what happens in Iraq and in Iran, or trying to suggest who is running all this, or try to find out, why? My only purpose is to explain how we (the Western world) innocently walk in a trap, which piece by piece build up to the Islam Radical World Empire.
On the other hand, in the neighboring country, the
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PART 2
The Ravenstein documents
Dr. Alfred Postuma, a researcher working at the Gent University, specializing in studying of ancient documents, received from the Brussels National Museum a bundle of documents which seem to have been the property of the Queen Mother Elisabeth Gabriele Val̩rie Marie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria (July 25, 1876 РNovember 23, 1965), queen consort of Albert I of Belgium and mother of Leopold III of Belgium. A daughter of Karl-Theodor, Duke in
Dr. Alfred Postuma finally made time to research the old bundle of official documents, of which most of them dealt with property deeds, and hunting permits belonging to estates owned by the queen's family in
Dr. Postuma tried to find out, why this property, obvious owned by the late Queen's Catholic family, had been integrated into the Protestant Netherlands, and not, like other Spanish Beauties, returned to the lawful owner, the Catholic Kingdom Belgium. Finding no evidence of sale or any transfer of the property, he decided to publish his findings. His purpose was of course, not to try to change the status of the property, but to show, how, in actual fact, the new division of Europe, did not take account the ownership of estates, and create borders between countries, irrelevant who owned it and who lived there.
Surprisingly, his publication created quit a stir in the academic world, special by the Flemish speaking part of Belgium, which finally found a subject to blame their Dutch neighbors of land-theft. Quickly, this issue became an issue for the political Vlaams Belang Party a very extreme Flemish right wing political party, championing all causes that might embarrass the Government. Their news papers shouted in their headlines, "High value Real Estate belonging to the Belgian people, was stolen by the Dutch Imperialists, known for not only for betrayal of their Flemish brothers in the hundred year fight with the Walloons but also for their cunning taking advantage of the still fragile Belgian nation".
More peculiar was a support for this confrontation, by their usual arch-enemies, the United Arab Islam Party (the Political branch of several Islamic parties which united under a common national
The UAIP was worried about the strong anti Islamic feelings in
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Those anti-immigrant legislations were also introduced by the Dutch representatives in the European Government, and got surprisingly huge backing from other member countries' delegates, for example: Italian, French, Austrian, German and
The UAIP causes were poorly represented at the European Government, and by trying to promote friction between the European members, they thought to reduce the danger of anti immigrant (anti Islam) laws and rules of the assembly. It became clear very fast, that even though,
The UAIP had succeeded to gain many seats in the Municipal elections, in Flemish cities such as
After numerous skirmishes between Flemish youth and Muslim Women dressed with scarves (burqas) and long black dresses, the local Muslim groups formed armed militias, to defend their women being attacked by hoodlums claiming that the local police failed to protect their women. The Flemish Government was incapable passing a law against those militia, because strong opposition from UAIP representatives. Weapons of various magnitude were smuggled through the German and French borders to those militia groups, including anti tank guns, automatic rifles and rockets. The police tried unsuccessfully to stop the armament of the militias, but did not receive the necessary backing of the central government.
International Terrorist Support Groups Thrive in
Adriana Stuijt
Monday, Sept. 24, 2001
The British researcher Dr. R. Gunaratna warned that, especially in The Netherlands, because of its total lack of anti-terrorism laws and its very high level of religious, cultural and judicial tolerance, Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist groups are allowed to thrive. They use
The Kurdish PKK, the Tamil Tigers and the Philippines' New People's Army all use the liberal Dutch territory, from which they garnish new converts, turn them into activist supporters, launder and raise funds and purchase sophisticated equipment. These Dutch-based groups, especially, also create waves of propaganda material – and, being based in
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| A New Form of Terrorism |
Another new, disturbing pattern pointing to a new form of terrorism against the civilian population at large has been detected in both harbor towns of
"Muslim cultural organizations" have also turned the streets of Antwerp and Rotterdam into main battlegrounds for Muslim fundamentalist male criminal youth gangs who deliberately attack, rob and invade ethno-European cultural events and throngs of shoppers in the large shopping districts.
These well-organized attacks are leaving the local Dutch-speaking ethno-Europeans totally vulnerable and defenseless because their governments have no anti-terrorist laws with which to stop such highly aggressive youth groups from forming in the first place.
For instance, about 5.1 percent of Rotterdam's population is of Moroccan origin – yet about 10 percent of all the city's arrested criminal suspects are of Moroccan origin, according to Rotterdam's latest police statistics issued by chief inspector J. Verbeek and Erasmus University.
In the Dutch-speaking region's latest criminal youth gang attack in Belgium, in the suburb of Hasselt in Antwerp on Sept. 24, large groups of Algerian-Moroccan youths, centrally organized by cell phones and armed with batons and insecticide spray, attacked hundreds of local Flemish citizens holding their traditional end-of-summer fair and circus event at Kruger market square.
Many eyewitnesses who described the terror and destruction at the usually jolly and peaceful Flemish circus fair said the Algerian and Moroccan youths targeted especially women and girls as the youth gangs tore into the carnival goers, spraying people's eyes with insecticides and deodorants; spitting at and insulting especially the Flemish; ordering the girls and women to wear headscarves and calling them whores; cursing the men as "Flemish pork-eaters"; spitting on and befouling with urine and soil the carnival's traditional pancake dinners and destroying the antique, highly valuable carousel and circus equipment hired for the Hasselt community carnival.
Flemish old-age pensioners and children alike were forced to flee in fear of being blinded by spray, and were beaten up and kicked. The Flemish carnival goers – all local residents – had to flee from a steady stream of loud, rude verbal abuse from the young Algerians and Moroccans invading their neighborhood. Many witnesses also said the youths chanted popular slogans used by the Muslim-terrorist organization GIA. Some of these events were described in a local
Carnival goers who tried to remain and finish their traditional pancake meals or who tried to protect the antique circus equipment were physically attacked by kick-boxing youths. The equipment and musical instruments were destroyed during the racist rampage. There were very few police in attendance. The mainstream Belgian news media briefly described the event as a "scuffle" at a local carnival without mentioning the racist overtones.
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In Rotterdam, only about 60 miles north of Antwerp, a similar pattern has also been developing over the past year, with widespread reports of assaults by Moroccan-Algerian youth gangs – described by Dutch police as "criminal youth gangs of North African descent"– but who are described by the news media as being highly centrally organized through cell phones.
These gangs target major shopping districts and traditional European cultural and sporting events to rob, terrorize and abuse especially the ethno-Dutch population. During these organized attacks, the youths are also seen to deliberately target ethno-European girls and women, demanding that they start obeying the strict Muslim shari'a laws favored by terrorist regimes in
A Sociological Explanation
Dutch sociologists do not link these aggressive criminal North African male youth gangs to any Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist organizations – instead claiming that this first generation of Algerian-Moroccan youths, primarily rose without fathers, were "de-culturized" and therefore aimlessly floating into such destructive criminal behavior.
The sociologists, in fact, urged even more government subsidies to these "cultural" groups to try and combat such behavior. By tradition and unlike Christian women, these sociologists point out, Muslim women are never allowed to discipline any of their male children and the cultural groups might be able to better "channel their male energies."
However, there's a much more organized situation going on here than these Dutch sociologists would have us believe. For example, on the night after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the
This was too much even for the highly liberal Dutch –
And in a shock survey carried out by Muslim cultural publications the day after the attack, a full 80 percent of the thousands of Dutch Muslims questioned said that they had been in favor of the terrorist attacks.
Besides these clear danger signals from the Muslim community in The Netherlands itself, the Dutch government this week was also warned by the British anti-terrorism expert Gunaratna, of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Science at St. Andrews University in Scotland, to "stop disregarding the international fight against terrorism, and start prohibiting these terrorist support groups by law."
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He urged the Dutch government to immediately change its laws and immediately prohibit these support groups. "Your country must change its laws at once if it wants to remain free of terrorism," he said.
Dutch Law and Terrorism
The
Many Dutch citizens – such as the head of the now-defunct "Anti-apartheid movement
However, the internal security service of The Netherlands (BVD) itself is also not concentrating on probing such Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist activities as much as they are infiltrating right-wing or neo-Nazi groups, as the Dutch government has traditionally viewed such fascism as the prime enemy of peace and prosperity since the Nazi occupation during WWII. As long as the Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist support groups do not misbehave inside The Netherlands, they can therefore continue to use the Dutch territory
from which to garnish economic and material support – including purchasing highly
sophisticated weaponry from the local arms industry – even if these directly
lead to terrorist attacks outside The Netherlands, as also happened during the terrorist campaign conducted by the ANC and the PAC against the apartheid government in
Terrorist Support Groups
Gunaratna said many of these groups have been active in The Netherlands for many years. "They conduct fundraisers and launder funds in The Netherlands to carry out violent attacks in Asia and the
American expert Yossef Bodansky, author of a book on bin Laden, also confirmed that Amsterdam-based shipping companies operate as front organizations for the Al Qaida organization.
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This was also confirmed by the French-Arabian newspaper Al Watan Al Arabi. Dutch internal affairs minister De Vries shrugged a dismayed "So what can I do about it?" reaction when confronted with these warnings from international experts – telling the TV program "Buitenhof" that he actually "could not exclude that subversive activities might be taking place inside such Muslim cultural groups."
And he even warned a few days later after talks with the 25 mayors of the main Dutch cities in charge of the regional police corps that "the Dutch cannot now start waging a cold war against Muslim religious groups." He also warned
Meanwhile,
Some anti-Muslim reactions were also recorded in The Netherlands since the Sept. 11 infamy. About 25 incidents were recorded by Dutch police, including arson, graffiti, and threats against mosques and Islamic schools in the towns of
Police in
The suspect, Omar Nakhcha, a 23-year-old Moroccan, led the two cells, which recruited socalled "holy warriors" to fight in the Iraqi insurgency, the statement said. Twenty suspects from those cells were arrested on Tuesday in
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The cell near
Mohamed Afalah, a Moroccan who is presumed dead after apparently carrying out a suicide attack in
Police arrested two other people with Nakhcha on Thursday, but authorities had not completed identification of them and it's possible they are not suspects and just happened to be with Nakhcha at the time of his arrest, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN. Police also searched four locales on Thursday after arresting Nakhcha, the statement said.
Nakhcha is linked to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which authorities say had a key role in the
Investigators think a Moroccan man possibly recruited by one of the Spanish cells fought in
The other suspected cell was based in
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Last month, police arrested 18 suspected Islamic terrorists -- also on suspicion of recruiting "holy warriors" to fight against Western forces in
Muslims specifically trained to teach non-Muslims were sent to Western universities. Since the 1970s, the Euro-Arab Dialogue apparatus — a complex Euro-Arab propaganda lobby that involved the highest political levels of the two sides — has encouraged this policy, conducted by local and immigrant professors. It is also thanks to this complex structure, based on oil, market interests, and arms sales, that many millions of Muslim immigrants were encouraged to settle in
Weakened by two world wars and obsessed with its immediate economic interests, the European Union has deliberately adopted an ostrich-like policy since the 1970s. Rather than confronting the real dangers of radical Islam, the EU chose to deny them and implicitly endorsed the Arab war against
Since September 11, 2001, many ideas have been presented to the American public concerning Islam and it is perfectly true that one cannot encompass a billion people in a single judgment. If one should not pre-judge people and individuals, one can nevertheless form an opinion on Islam according to its religious scriptures, its jurisdiction, its political institutions, its long history, and its doctrinal injunctions concerning Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims. One should not label people by generalizing, but one can — and must — examine and ponder over the Islamic historical and political legacy, especially in the domain that relates to non-Muslims.
Belgian Halifat
Arab immigrants create parallel power structures
Elmar Gusseinov,RIA “Novosti”, Paris
A new state might soon come into being in
religion the Islam. Whatever the future is, the streets of the biggest Belgian city,
It looks like the most nightmarish fears of average Europeans come true in
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This radical organization would also like to see the Arabic becoming an official language in
One cannot escape an impression that the mindless attempts of the Left to change cultural and ethnic landscape of Europe are about to bring upon
Local authority of
The climax burst out last autumn when a Flemish guy beat (the crap out of) his neighbor, who happened to be a Moroccan teacher. The Arab community of
The militiamen closely follow the steps of the regular policemen in the immigrants’ quarters, carrying placards saying “Bad cops, the Arab League of Europe keeps an eye on you!’ They also use video cameras to film every step of the policemen. Official web-sites of the League are full of anti-Semitic slogans. There already were attempts to set alight the city synagogue.
The radical Right party under the leadership of Philip de Winter has formally committed itself to the protection of the Jewish community. Arab extremists’ orgy has resulted in a swing in
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The main international gateways are
Older, well-heeled tourists from Europe,
In 1996, according to WTO statistics,
The Sultanate of Oman is home to only 2.4 million people but it is the second largest state in the Arabian Gulf after
The sultanate occupies a strategic position overlooking the Straits of Hormuz, the transit point for transporting the world's biggest single source of crude oil. (According to a recent issue of The Economist, an estimated 16 million barrels a day pass through this waterway.)
Not surprisingly, given the country's geography, the Omanis have always been a seafaring people. Traditional dhows, wooden vessels with graceful, curved hulls and high prows, still carry trade goods back and forth across the ocean. In days gone by, they transported copper and frankincense around the ancient world. By the time the Portuguese merchants arrived in the early 1500s, Omanis held sway over a vast trading area which extended from
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From the mid-19th century until the 1960s,
Sultan Qaboos is a graduate of Sandhurst and during the past three decades, the ruler and his government have launched a series of ambitious five-year plans to develop and modernize the country. Using revenues earned from the export of oil and natural gas and with the help of an army of migrant workers, the country's economy and the standard of living of its people, have been transformed. Omanis have literally gone from camels to computers in less than a generation - an astonishing achievement by anybody's standards, but one which has not been devoid of problems. For some Omanis the rate of change has been too fast, for others, it has not been fast enough.
Like his father, Sultan Qaboos is an absolute ruler, albeit a relatively benevolent and enlightened one. He has his detractors. Nonetheless, he and his advisers have achieved an incredible amount in a relatively short space of time. According to a report published in March 2002 by The Economist, over the past three decades, electricity output in Oman has risen by 670 times, the number of telephones 420 times and the number of doctors 260 times - a very different scenario from the Oman of the 1970s.
Today,
Tourism is, as yet, a blip on the economic map. The travel industry is still in its infancy, but the Omani government is targeting it as a promising source of revenue for the future--not least because revenues from oil are expected to remain fairly flat for some time to come. Oil reserves, in any case, are not expected to last beyond the next couple of decades.
Unlike most other sultanates in the region whose oil supplies are expected to last for another century or longer,
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In 2000, (the most recent figure available) 571,000 international travelers visited
Salalah, in the extreme south of the country, 640 miles from
Several resorts designed to appeal to leisure travellers and families, are being planned or are already under construction. At Mirbat, near Salalah, the Dhofar Tourism Company is building a $150 million tourist "village" which will include two hotels, a diving centre and a park. UNESCO recently awarded heritage site status to five destinations in Dhofar which were part of the ancient frankincense route.
One of the most ambitious projects is the Barr Al Jissah Resort which will be built some five miles south of
Nobody found it peculiar when 2 businessmen from Saudi Arabia contacted a water sport supply center in Antwerp, with an order for 50 enlarged high speed water scooters, to be used in the vicinity of Bandar al Rawdha marina, for extended day tours of the country's 1,056-mile coastline spectacular mix of indented fjords, lagoons laced with mangrove trees, rocky coves and long, sandy beaches which are, as yet, unsullied by mass construction.
Generally, those water scooters have only a small capacity for luggage and fuel, but the scooters ordered, were specially re-designed to enable non-stop use for 6 – 8 hours, without refill of the tanks. The scooters were to be delivered at a specific warehouse in the
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The
Botlek (
The cabinet's plans become public the moment the US Department of Homeland Security conveys the sci fi-inspired message 'Homeland Security Threat Level Raised to
Speak of a dare! Stirred by these tidings, that very evening three civilian cars set out and head for the first target: the lunar factory aka the mystery factory or the sci factory. For security reasons (international tension and all), the exact location will not be revealed here.
Parked in a way that would make a Navy SEAL scratch behind his head, a dozen people get out of the cars. A same number of zoom lenses appear.
A low concrete wall makes the covert access easy. Entering it for the third time since last November, it’s getting a routine, though tonight the area breathes a completely different atmosphere. For one, the Nationaal Crisis Centrum (NCC) wasn't so much on top of things, back then.
Or maybe it's the orange lights. They're pointed at the factory as if it were a base on the red planet. Where are the operators? Ten shades disappear in the mist, looking for clues.
I’m looking for the ladder to the highest chimney, but it’s removed since the visit of the
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After a careful scan of an irrelevant day report (porter nostalgia!), we move on.
Two cars move to an undisclosed target, the third heads for a most exciting component of the Betuwelijn. Under a bridge we make it to the edge of the railway and head towards the tunnel entrance. On the right side runs a highway lane, on which cars make us duck out of sight every half minute. As the last few feet remain between us and the entry, a rumble swells from behind us. It turns out to come from a yellow locomotive on a track separate of the tunnel entrance. As it comes closer, the ground starts to tremble and at a slow pace it roars by. In a flash I see the driver stopping the loc, transmitting an emergency call to the NCC and loading a flare gun. But the loc keeps its speed and the window stays closed. Seconds later the loc rides parallel to the tunnel track, out of sight.
Everyone breathes out and we continue the walk, right into the rectangular shaped beak of the Botlektunnel. It’s about twelve meters high and seven meters wide. After hundred meters or so it changes into a hollow cylinder. The ceiling is twenty meters under water. This is a pristine and sterile tunnel, reminding of the
With an inexperienced eye, I'd say the track hasn't been used much yet. According to the original plan, the tunnel should've been operational in 2002. Another few hundred meters further down, a doorway leads to a staircase. Three stories higher we’re standing on ground level. A big chamber is clamped by highway lanes. Back on tunnel level, we walk a bit further. The tunnel supposedly is about three kilometers long, but alas, a majority of the group prefers turning around over an exit from the other side.
As we exit the tunnel, no representatives of Natres, NCC or the Marechaussee are awaiting us. Very well then, the zoom lenses can be put at rest; planet Botlek has nothing to fear of the fly-by-nights.
In the
14 May 2005
In the
The movie fits in the current wave of movies about the tensions in the Dutch multi-cultural society. It's a good one in its genre, I think. Good acting, good pace, nice plot (though a bit predictable). In any other genre it would be classified as crafty (at best), but the political and social subject matter makes it interesting. The movie was shot before the murder of Theo van Gogh, which is remarkable because after the murder the general public became aware of terrorist cells, with young Moroccans participating, focusing on Dutch soil. Theo van Gogh, BTW, who earlier that year made a very good movie ("Cool") in the same genre. Author:
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Nuclear Thefts in
Sqn Ldr Ajey Lele, Defense Analyst
Post American invasion,
Dr. El Baradei is worried because large quantities of scrap material, some of it contaminated, have been transferred out of
This radioactive material known as yellowcake or uranium oxide could be used to build a nuclear weapon. However, a very large quantity of such substance along with a complicated technology would be required to produce enough uranium for a single bomb. But this small amount is sufficient for the production of a ?radiological (dirty) bomb?.
The UN is also not clear about whether the removal of these items from Iraqi labs is the result of looting in the aftermath of the recent war or because of some covert efforts to shift their locations. It is a great irony that the
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Eventually, seven of
There were also reports that the looters had stolen radioactive isotopes stored in bright silver containers. A few had stolen the uranium barrels not for the material but for the containers and the uranium was thrown in the fields. Such loose radioactive sources are damaging to health, and even fatal.
The recent announcement by Osama bin Laden regarding engaging
The recent kidnappings, killings and social unrest in various parts of
“Rotterdam action programme against radicalisation, for opportunities”
by Margreet Anceaux, City of
Margreet Anceaux started her presentation by confirming that
In The Netherlands terrorism can, generally speaking, be categorized into three forms:
terrorist activities by animal right activists, terrorist activities by ultra-right winged activists and activities resulting from radicalization of people who claim to act in name of Islam.
We are being faced by a situation in which we start to divide the people around us into those people that we trust, and those we do not trust. Between the two groups is a gap. The action program: Join in, of get left behind - has been created to diminish this gap. In short the program is about ‘being a good citizen’. The basic idea behind it is that we do not have to sit and wait for disaster to strike. We can act already in an earlier stage; the focus of the program is on people that are perceived to be on the verge of radicalization. In the approach, which consists of 3 phases (repression, preparation and prevention), the municipality takes a leading role with civil servants that are alert and open.
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Moreover, it is an integrated effort of several local actors, e.g. the police, social services, and department for education. An important role in preparation plays the ‘information switch point’. The 8 persons working for this service are collecting signs of radicalization, extremism and terrorism, that are in itself spotted by municipal departments and municipal districts (and agencies connected with the government). These key information persons can be for example civil servants, school staff, social workers, mosque representatives. The collected data is then first presented to the police and the judiciary. If those parties feel the dossier should be followed up by them, the case is handed over. Otherwise, the information switch point team will start to develop a plan for assistance, or, if a dossier is judged not to be urgent at all, it is simply kept on file for a period of maximum 6 months. When looking into a case the switch point works with indicators:
· Intellectual development
· Work and finances
· Environment (family and friends)
· Profession of faith
· How time is spent
· Psychological characteristics
The work done by the switch point not only results in dossiers on and plans for assistance of certain persons. It also reveals trends and it can provide a kind of picture of the city that shows what the situation is like (e.g. when social unrest is felt elsewhere in the world, a quick scan of the situation in
All information and data gathered by the switch point is confidential and can not be shared with other departments or organizations.
Q: does looking into (changes in) physical appearances not go against basic rights of people?
A: this is not what happens within the approach. It might be that a sudden or big change in the appearance of a person triggers attention, which could be the starting point of an investigation. Of course, the switch point always has to follow strict procedures and protocol. These have been examined by the National Bureau for privacy protection. They cannot simply ask for all information about a person, but they could ask a department: do you have any special remarks to make about this person?
The switch point is to look for multiple signals; only then it is allowed to put the magnifying glass on a person. Until now this has not yet happened. No intervention plans have been drawn up.
Remark: it seems that in
And the other organizations are almost ‘free’ to do as they please.
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Major Terrorist attack on
The Dutch security forces informed the press that a major plot to terrorize the International Port of Rotterdam has been prevented and that numerous suspects were arrested.
According the Special Forces spokesman, the terrorists intended to use speed water scooters with explosives, steered by suicide terrorist in to collusion with ships in the waterway connecting the
The collision with explosive loaded water scooters at the water level of the ships passing through the very busy waterways would cause inside ship fires, which are hard to control, and as these collisions were planned simultaneous on more than 30 large ships, it would cause chaos and havoc and thus blockade the harbor. The terrorists planned to attack at least 2 or 3 fuel tankers, which would cause to heavy smoke, explosions and non extinguishing flames.
The Rotterdam Port, one of the busiest ports in the world, serving the Western Industry areas of Germany, Belgium and Holland, but also the former Communistic block, as all year open port, for in and export, petrol and coal supply and is the worlds largest container harbor in the world.
The attack which should have take place this week, was spoilt due to a confession of one of the potential suicide terrorists arrested for illegally entering the security zone of the Port.
He is a Moroccan youth 28 years old, living in the poorer districts of
The Dutch Police in cooperation with the Interpol succeeded in rounding up 34 potential suspects, some of them been arrested before, on terror suspicion, but released for lack in evidence.
Armed Belgian Moslem Militia attacks Dutch Police Post Roosteren (Limburg, the
The name of the village of Roosteren (population circa 1600, including Kokkelert and Oevereind) was derived from a combination of the Rode Beek (Red Brook) and the town of Suestra (Susteren) leading to the name Roosteren. The village has two 'castles', the Castle Ter Boch and the Castle Eyckholt and a number of Lord Manors. It is located in between the
On the other side of the river
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In the early morning, an armed militia group, belonging to the Militant Radical Islamic Terrorist Organization GICM, which terrorizes the Belgian border town Maaseik, lounged an armed strike at a Dutch Police Post at Roosteren, on the other side of the river
The attackers killed 5 policemen and one civilian (an accused thief, awaiting transportation to the regional prison). In addition 2 policemen were taken prisoner (Lt. Geert Verbrugge, 37 years old and Agent Karel Maan, 28 years old).
After the surprise attack, the raiding party retreated back to
The GICM demands immediate release of all Islamic prisoners in the Dutch and
The GICM will not allow any visits to the visitors, nor will it recognize any intermediary delegations, to reach any understanding, other than the above demands.
The response
In an urgent meeting, which took place in
The town was immediately surrounded by Dutch and Belgium Army units, in order to prevent supply of further weapons and ammunition reaching the rebels. In the Islam neighborhoods of
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A special NATO commando unit (French Paratroopers) tried to enter the town, from several directions, but was forced to turn back because heavy fire of automatic weapons, from roofs and windows in the streets. The commando, anxious not to hurt the innocent local population, refrained from using more destructive weapons.
Fleeing citizens out of Maaseik told about the chaotic situation inside the town, with black clad youths entering houses and ordering the population to leave the vicinity. The local police and town council members were round up, and heavily guarded in the local police station.
Rockets hit the Dutch border towns of Eindhoven, Weert and Roermond
A salvo of rockets was fired on the Dutch towns of
Laboratory building of the
Besides explosives (+/- 50 Kg) the rocket head carried small metal and stones, meant to do damage to anyone in the neighborhood. 5 people were killed during the bombardment and more than 100 people were treated for wounds and shell shock.
The Arab League nations, South American countries
The Security Council of the United Nations failed to reach an agreement on demand for immediate cease fire, while its secretary general Koffy Anan requests all parties to restrain from offensive actions.
The Dutch air force, helicopter unit tries to pin-point rebel positions, but as they hide between the local populations, many locals are killed. According publications of the GICM, the Dutch bombardment killed over 56 innocent civilians, including children and women and wounded more than 300 hundred. There is no way in investigating the correct number of people hurt in the attack.
Islamic youth from all over Europe and the Middle East try unsuccessfully to join the fighting in Maaseik., and are arrested at the
Several humanist organizations in
The rebels declared a holy war (jihad) against the Imperialist regimes of
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People that fled out of Maaseik told that the town was low on food , and medical supplies, which caused the International Red Cross in cooperation of the UN to supply the town with
supplies. It also arranged to allow heavily wounded people to be removed to the European hospitals.
The televised speech of sheikh Ahmad Ibn Hazir
Ibn Hazir was seen on television, dressed in a robe of a Moslem priest and turban on his head, sitting in the front of the camera with the Koran in his hands. His demands were:
1 – Immediate release of all Islamic prisoners in European jails.
2 – Return of the “Ravenstein Beauties”, which will be known as the "Independent Islam State of Ravenstein and Maaseik" Arabstan” in Arabic, with its borders see enclosed map
Following, the interview with Ibn Hazir on the Maaseik TV
Ibn Hazir gave a speech on the local Maaseik TV. It was the first time he addressed
Now Ibn Hazir called for bombing what is "beyond
Judging by Ibn Hazir's promise to strike further into the Dutch heartland and his smiling face in recent interviews, including one with the Luxembourg TV, Ibn Hazir appears undaunted by the Dutch attacks. One reason for his defiance is that Ibn Hazir finds himself in a difficult position before the Maaseik street. When the war started he promised he would not release the two captured Dutch policemen unless
This is why he is entering Phase Two of the war. He is biding time, waiting until more Dutch die and more Dutch cities are bombed, so that the pressure will grow for Prime Minister to call for a cease-fire and give into Ibn Hazir's demands. If the death toll continues to rise in
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"We are in pain but they are also in pain," Ibn Hazir said in his televised speech. Two million Dutchmen are living in danger, fearing GICM bombs, he said.
GICM's psychological warfare is not limited to Ibn Hazir's pronouncements. On Tuesday night, immediately after Ibn Hazir's speech, an advertisement with Dutch subtitles was shown on Maaseik TV. Referring to the name of GICM's previous missiles, the ad said: "Raad 1= ?? km." This refers to the double-digit kilometer range that enabled these missiles to reach
In his speech Ibn Hazir told the public that he was not responsible for the war. It is now clear, he said, that the Dutch and Belgian Police had been planning an offensive on Maaseik, scheduled for September or October 2006. Were it not for the current war, this invasion would have been a "surprise attack" that would have caught GICM off guard and led to its destruction by the massive Dutch and
This line fits in with the views of many Islamic Europeans of Holland's motives. Many are saying that
All these factors explain why Ibn Hazir appears to want an Dutch ground invasion of Maaseik. He is almost pleading for the Dutch to cross the line, believing that this would be military suicide for the Dutch commando.
Dutch Invasion evident!
Indeed, the Dutch have begun to consider a ground invasion, realizing that two weeks of aerial bombardment has not been enough to destroy GICM. Because a full-scale ground invasion is risky and likely would greately increase Dutch casualties, some European analysts are talking of a limited invasion to spot GICM concentrations, destroy them, confiscate arms, and retreat. This also would be very difficult. Thus, the mood in
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A quick read through the Dutch and
There is already talk in the Arab world about a solution put forward by Saudi Arabia, which calls for a complete cease-fire and prisoner exchange between GICM and Holland, something that Ibn Hazir has been calling for since Day I. It demands "a firm solution" to the Ravenstein Beauties situation, and GICM's withdrawal into the heartland of the proposed independent state. It adds that disarming the Shiite group will not be discussed "at this stage." This plan, which would have been supported by Ibn Hazir, was clearly dismissed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her short visit to
The GICM leader is uninterested. He is clearly in no mood for a cease-fire, and shortly after Rice left
Florabuurt Maaseik
You have to read Western media accounts of the bombing of the Flora Neighborhood in Maaseik, such as this account in the New York Times, very carefully to get any hint of the underlying facts. This Reuters story by Hussein Saad is worse; the reporter's glee at the presumed refutation of
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to condemn the attack and call for an immediate end to hostilities. "I am deeply dismayed that my earlier calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities were not heeded," Annan said.
You have to go to outlets like the de Standaard to get a coherent account of the facts:
Some 150 rockets were fired from the the rebel town of Maaseik over the past 20 days, Air Force Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Jan.B. Uitmaarsen said on Sunday evening.
Speaking to reporters, Uitmaarsen added that GICM rocket launchers were hidden in civilian buildings in the neighborhood. He proceeded to show video footage of rocket launchers being driven into the quarter following launches.
The building where the women and children were killed earlier today "was picked since intelligence indicated that GICM guerillas were hiding inside, together with Katyusha rockets and launchers." There is, at present, no reason to doubt that that intelligence was correct.
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The Dutch commando warned residents of Maaseik to leave--a fact that was denied, surely falsely, by the rebel leader Ibn Hazir--and didn't know that refugees were in the same building where GICM terrorists were hiding. The leaflet dropped said as follows: To all citizens in Maaseik. Due to the terror activities being carried out against the
The
The strangest aspect of all this, of course, is that no one doubts that Holland killed the civilians in Florabuurt accidentally while targeting terrorists, whereas, on the other hand, GICM has launched hundreds of rockets into Holland for the sole and express purpose of killing civilians. Yet where is the outrage against GICM? Why is it that Kofi Annan swings into action only to denounce
UPDATE: The Army is trying to figure out why seven to eight hours apparently went by between the bombing of the structure where several dozen civilians were killed by the Dutch Air Force--between midnight and 1 a.m.--and the time the building collapsed, around 8 a.m. The obvious possibilities are 1) the building housed GICM explosives which blew up hours after the air attack and caused the collapse, or 2) the bombing weakened the structure, and some otherwise-innocuous event hours later caused it to collapse. Some will wonder whether GICM brought the building down deliberately to provoke exactly the reaction that has resulted. That's possible, of course, but there is at present no evidence for that hypothesis, and I haven't seen any independent evidence of a second explosion.
Nato Base "Kleine Brogel"
The large NATO base the Kleine Brogel is situated about 30 km from the rebel town Maaseik,
and according the leader of the Islamic rebel group GICM, part of the claimed
separated units (GSU) located throughout Europe at
The mission of a munss is to maintain custody and control of US munitions assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The normal authorized manning at a MUNSS is approximately 125-150 personnel. The MUNSS is tasked to receive, store, maintain, and account for US munitions and to provide those munitions to the NATO strike wing commander when directed. The MUNSS mission is one of the most critical within the USAFE Theater of operations.
Commanders are faced with one of the most difficult, yet interesting challenges of their career due to the complexity of the mission. The position includes a unique command opportunity to lead a diverse squadron of multifunctional afscs. Commanders typically operate a stand alone squadron with responsibilities for security, command and control, munitions maintenance/loading, communications and support personnel. Other requirements concerning NATO plans, facility improvement, services, and host nation support are frequent issues.
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Details of the Program of Agreements regarding nuclear deployments in NATO are secret. Air-dropped bombs are managed through the Weapons Storage Security System, planned during the Cold War, which required co-locating the nuclear bombs with conventional weapons in hardened underground vaults equipped with time locks. The vaults are constructed in the floor of the hardened aircraft shelters, whereas the igloos previously used to store nuclear weapons were located separately from the aircraft. Work began in 1987 on the vaults, each of which holds one nuclear bomb.
The weapon storage vaults installed in theater strike aircraft shelters allow co-storage of nuclear weapons and strike aircraft, greatly enhancing survivability and operational readiness.
In July 1986 the Pentagon released a list of 20 air bases in
Overall, the roughly 5,900 nuclear weapons stored on land in
Some nuclear weapons are stored are with US F-16 fighter-bombers at
As of the mid-1980s nuclear weapons were deployed at Araxos Air Base in
It is clear to everybody that the town Maaseik was chosen by the Islamic Radicals because its closed vicinity to the Kleine Brogel Nato base, and the absurd demands for the Ravenstein & Maaseik Territory, has only one purpose, namely, to embarrass Nato allies, and to create a terror climate in West Europe.
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| The holy city of Someren |
In Someren, inside the territory of Ravenstein and Maaseik is a pilgrimage resort for Moslems, the house, turned into Mosque is where the famous Islamic writer Essad Bey is said, wrote part of his books The site is converted into a holy Moslem place, were Moslems gather and pray. Even though, Essad Bey was from Jewish parents, his books deal with Islamic Life. The question if Essad Bey ever visited the town of Someren is irrelevant, and equivalent to the fact that Mohammad never visited Jerusalem, other than in his dream, and still Jerusalem is the third holiest side for the Moslem.
The brilliant author lived during the cultural hothouse of
In fact, Essad Bey, the Orientalist of Tom Reiss's title, was a fictional creation. Although fond of posing for photographs in Caucasian tribal gear, or wearing a fez or turban,
Nussimbaum did not make things easy. A relentless fantasizer and self-inventor, he treated the facts of his life as dramatic material. In one of many improbable strokes of luck, Mr. Reiss tracked down his subject's last editor, who surrendered six leather notebooks containing autobiographical ruminations that Nussimbaum wrote as he lay dying in
The Nussimbaums came from Slutzk, a village in the Pale of Settlement. Abraham, Lev's father, headed for
Revolution broke the spell. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, the Nussimbaums embarked on a terrifying journey across Turkestan and
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"The new identity that was taking shape in his mind had the pedigree of a Caucasian warrior, half Persian, half who knows what," Mr. Reiss writes. "He would not arrive in
In
A facile, stylish writer, Nussimbaum turned out books at a furious rate, all of them best sellers. He wrote biographies of Muhammad, Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin, and a history of the secret police under the Bolsheviks ("Who is this Essad Bey?" Trotsky wrote to his son in 1931). He chronicled his early life and the Bolshevik takeover of Baku in "Blood and Oil in the Orient," and took his wide-eyed German readers along a fantastic tour in "Twelve Secrets of the Caucasus," where, he claimed, one could find a strange, secluded land called Khevsuria, "the political Switzerland of the Caucasus," reached by a long rope hanging from a cliff. There, anyone fleeing the police could find sanctuary.
By the late 1930's, when the Nazis uncovered his Jewish identity, Nussimbaum needed that rope. When he could no longer publish in
Mr. Reiss's efforts to pick up the trail become a parallel narrative to Nussimbaum's life. His inquiries lead him to a strange gallery of characters, most in their 80's or even older, and all of them extremely odd, like the Austrian baroness, isolated in a remote castle, who spends her nights writing the French text for an Israeli-German rock musical. Unfortunately, she has never actually seen a musical, so Mr. Reiss, at her request, finds himself performing bits from "On the Town" and "Camelot." At moments like these, Mr. Reiss's quest takes him right through the looking glass.
"The Orientalist" is too long by a third. Mr. Reiss, reluctant to throw away any research, stops the narrative repeatedly to deliver a lengthy historical set piece as Nussimbaum moves from city to city, and he drags the reader a little too often into far-flung libraries and dusty offices as he follows up one lead after another. He is, to put it mildly, in no hurry to unfold his tale, but what a tale it is - mesmerizing, poignant and almost incredible. Mr. Reiss, caught up in the spell of Essad Bey, has turned around and worked some magic of his own.
The "Essad Bey" Mosque attracts Moslems from all over
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"Dutch Muslim Women Protest 'Mixed Swimming'"
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| In the meantime in the U.K: |
LONDON, Aug. 20 — From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and American soldiers. It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he said. Readers shared their thoughts on the terror arrests and the vulnerability of the
Mr. Massari maintains the Arabic-language site, tajdeed.org.uk, in the face of a strict new law aimed at curtailing violent speech and publishing. Just last week, the Council of Holy Warriors, a group affiliated with Al Qaeda, posted a declaration on the site praising a suicide bombing in
Mr. Massari’s Web site, and his public remarks, appear to violate of the Antiterrorism Act of 2006, which makes it a crime to glorify or encourage political violence. Inciting violence has long been illegal here but the new rules, drawn up after the
The law’s underlying assumption is that speeches and publications by
Some British leaders are beginning to publicly question why such clerics are allowed to continue. Last week, David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, chastised the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair for failing to enforce laws intended to make it more difficult for political extremists to operate. In remarks to the press, Mr. Cameron, a possible successor to Mr. Blair, accused the government of failing to “follow through when the headlines have moved on.”
“I do not believe that our government is doing enough to fight Islamist extremists at home or to protect our security,’’ he said. “Why have so few, if any, preachers of hate been prosecuted or expelled, with those that have gone having done so voluntarily?” In addition to curtailing political speech, the British government outlawed 15 militant groups, most of them Muslim. It took a sterner attitude toward Islamists who had preached violence in the past, barring one well-known Syrian-born cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, from returning to the country. Earlier this year, it secured the conviction of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the country’s most militant cleric, for soliciting murder and racial hatred.
Yet for all those actions, the new measures do not appear to have silenced those either praising or calling for violence in the name of Islam. Some Islamist preachers have carefully scaled back their language, even if, in context, the meaning seems clear. On Sunday, speaking before 8,000 followers in
“The greatest act of martyrdom is standing up for that is true and just,” Mr. Tamimi said. “Martyrs are those who stand up in defiance of George Bush and Tony Blair.”
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The remarks by Mr. Tamimi, one in a line of Islamist scholars and clerics to address the
“You are attacking our people in Muslim countries, in
“If you are going to kill a Muslim, then I will do everything in my power to kill you,’’ he said.
Cease Fire
The GICM and United Army units of
The cease-fire is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT, 1 a.m. ET).
Despite widespread hope that the cease-fire will bring a halt to the month long conflict, it was unclear what effect it will have. Acknowledging that "the next few days are days of uncertainty," Dutch commander Maj. Gen. B.de Vries said that
The Dutch commando Forces, meanwhile, launched what appeared to be one of the heaviest bombardments on Maaseik in the 33-day-old conflict, and struck targets in the town's southern suburbs. The Dutch forces have carried out more than 100 aerial attacks Sunday targeting GICM militants, and that five soldiers were killed Sunday in heavy fighting against GICM guerrillas in the town Maaseik.
Cannon fire from helicopters echoed over Maaseik, and small-arms fire was heard coming from south of the city. "It's time to do all we can to destroy as much as we can of the infrastructure in the next 12 or 13 hours, and then we'll see what is next," former Dutch Minister Bosch told CNN. Nouhad Mahmoud Iranean representative to the United Nations, countered, "I don't understand why we need this grand finale." He questioned what the Dutch thinks it could achieve in a matter of hours "that they couldn't achieve in one month."
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Mahmoud acknowledged that GICM set off the conflict, when its militants crossed into
A senior
The U.N. resolution calls on
Questions over 'offensive'
"This is our full and unequivocal intention," said Jan Pietersen, Dutch minister of tourism and a member of the Cabinet, which Sunday approved U.N. Resolution 1801. But Dutch officials also acknowledged it remains unclear what actions could be construed as "offensive." "What if some trucks will come from
The UN brokered Cease fire between constitutional and recognized nations on one side and a guerilla organization, which does not agree to the adhere to any of the International Agreements on War fare, prisoners care, red cross, etc. is an abnormality that can only be explained by the increasing lack in morality by the members of the security council and the growing influence of the Radical Islamic movements on the economy and sanity of the member countries.
Persuading yourself that my story is exaggerated, think again, and look at the true facts presented to you, in the first part. It looks like a nightmare plot against civilization, I hope I am wrong, but read the papers, listen to the news, they are here to stay, and they are not nice.
Aftermath
Under heavy pressure from the Arab League and the former Communist Block, the General Assembly recognized the territory "Ravenstein and Maaseik" “Arabstan” an independent Islam republic, but will not permit the new country to have an army, other than a police force, only for internally order keeping. The countries of
The new regime of “Arabstan” choose Arabic as first language and the laws according the Quran. It refuses to recognize the existence of the Kingdoms of the
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Both were created through sacrifice of Moslem laborers. Christians and Jews living in the area, are permitted to stay, but are forced to dress according Islamic modesty, and will not have any voting right.
According the president of
Note:
Too much, too wild, too much imagination, you will say, not so, only change in the above texts
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