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Europe
Dutch raid PKK training camp, bust 29
2004-11-12
They allow terrorist training camps to operate on their soil?
Dutch authorities have raided a suspected training camp of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group in the southern Netherlands and arrested 29 people, prosecutors said on Friday. "This was a result of a year-long investigation," a prosecution spokesman said, adding that 29 people had been arrested in the raid at a farmyard campsite near the southern village of Liempde. "We suspect this was a training camp." Other raids were taking place elsewhere in connection with the investigation, Dutch news agency ANP reported. The spokesman said there was no connection between the raid and others in the country in recent days linked with investigations into suspected Islamic militants following the murder last week of outspoken Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

Earlier this week, a Dutch court blocked the extradition to Turkey of Nuriye Kesbir, who Ankara accuses of being part of the top leadership of the PKK and of organizing and taking part in attacks in southeast Turkey in 1993-95. Kesbir was arrested after arriving in the Netherlands in September 2001. She was denied political asylum and has been fighting extradition proceedings ever since. Turkey accuses Kesbir of training female PKK fighters and of planning and making armed attacks that resulted in 144 deaths. She has denied the charges but confirmed holding a leadership position in the PKK.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#1  Wait, what's the deal? As already mentioned, there are terror camps just hanging around the Netherlands?

And only after Van Gogh they bother to think "Gee, maybe this is a bad idea?"
Posted by: QWERTY   2004-11-12 1:24:29 PM  

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