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Dutch Police Raid Kurdish Camp Arrest 29
2004-11-12
Dutch police raided a camping ground in Liempde, in the south of the Netherlands, and arrested 29 people suspected of being members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is labeled a terrorist group in the European Union. National law enforcement officials led the raid, said Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the police. The camp may have been a paramilitary training center for the Turkish group, he said. The action isn't linked to the Nov. 10 siege of a house in The Hague, when special forces arrested two suspected terrorists after they injured three police officers with a hand grenade, De Bruin said. It also has no connection to the Nov. 2 murder of Theo van Gogh, in whose killing a suspect with dual Moroccan and Dutch citizenship has been held, he said.

Kurdish rebels have fought against Turkey a two-decade war of independence at the cost of more than 30,000 lives, most of them Kurdish. The rebellion has largely subsided since the 1999 imprisonment of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. The rebels in June ended a unilateral five-year truce with the Turkish army.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#6  They lock very well. I have a friend who works in a prison for the Dept of Justice in the Netherlands. It's full of muslims.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-11-12 7:58:18 AM  

#5  That is, have effective locks. Its too early in the morning for preview to work for me.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-11-12 7:32:45 AM  

#4  Low hanging fruit, perhaps, Cornîliës? I suppose the natives should be grateful at least some of the bad guys are being taken out of circulation, if not all the culprits in the van Gogh tragedy. Dutchgeek, in my perennial Pollyanna view, although the prisons are posh, I suspect Dutch prison doors effective locks, unlike French ones, ja of niet?
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-11-12 7:30:31 AM  

#3  This only the top of the iceberg....All kind of groups are active in The Netherlands.....they mainly finance their operations under the umbrella of the Dutch liberal drug policies and don't have to worry about the law......our prisons are among the best all- inclusive hotels of the Netherlands.....
Posted by: Dutchgeek   2004-11-12 7:04:35 AM  

#2  TW, no, in this case, they don't. Instead of smite-your-infidel-neck jihadis they target Kurdish commies. [sarc]Yea, that makes sense![/sarc]
Posted by: Cornîliës   2004-11-12 6:48:49 AM  

#1  Now they get it. Good.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-11-12 6:10:11 AM  

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