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Netherlands major Al Qaeda recruiting center.
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It came on the news in America last night that the Netherlands has become a major center for recruitment for al Qaeda....both inside the mosques and among anti-American leftest. Anyone in Europe heard more about this? This story just was broadcasted last night.
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We'll soon notice a major rise, of these terrorist cells within Europe.
Many of the young people commiting to these organisations are well-aducated and seem integrated in their countries.
But that's exactly the point. Filling them with the either/or and making the culture gaps too wide, for these people to bear.
Their dicipline probably comes from the enormous imposed hatred.
There's been nothing on the Belgian news and we're right next door.
I really do hope, that you are aware of the fact that the terror cells in Europe are having a terrible rise.
Holland majoring with Al-Qaeda recruits, or not, they are in Europe.
And I'd rather we took notice of them now, than after a big damage has been done.
There has been plenty of reprting about small groups being rounded up and arms seizures, but nothing that signals the type of concentrations or increases that you seem to believe in.
I also have an active role in a policy and planning group comprised of important figures from NATO, the EU, the major military platform contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAe Systems, SNECMA, and others), diplomatic representatives and a range of private and public sector analysts and experts which deals with anti-terrorism planning amongst other continental and global defense and security issues.
If what you say were truly the case then there would be far more alarm within this circle than has been demonstrated in dicussions and forward projections so far.
Btw: there is only 1 US air base in Belgium, Florennes, and it is in the Southern part of the country not the Northern.
Sorry to take this off-topic, but are there any official agreements in which the US can store nuclear weapons in European bases? I know they did it in Spain even though they weren't supposed to. The trick they did was to separate the warhead from the body of the bomb and remove one other component, so it couldn't be classified as a nuclear weapon.
"Prosecutors say that besides the Paris embassy, the group targeted the Kleine-Brogel base in northeast Belgium, where around 100 U.S. Air Force personnel are stationed. Environmental groups claim the munitions dump also stores 26 B61 free-fall nuclear bombs"
How I found this article. I went to Yahoo US. Keyed in Al Qaeda and Netherlands. Got a bunch of articles. One spoke of how the Netherlands surpresses news which might be taken as anti-Muslim because the Christians and the Muslim do not trust one another in the Netherlands.
As for attacks, there definitely would have been big media coverage if any attack had ever been planned or carried out recently.
In point of fact, since the early to mid 80's Belgium has not had any successful terrorist act committed on its soil so i think the journal you read is merely throwing out random targets as means of increasing the sense of threat back home. Such a sense is not present here. At any rate, such a storage dump would be amongst the most secure of possible targets if such plans existed.
Far more likely they would hit public areas in Brussels or any of the various international institutions resident in the city.
http://www.iht.com/articles/78922.html
Frankly these goons have been inprisoned since a matter of weeks after 9/11 which makes it somewhat dated as a threat and only resurfaced because they are going on trial.
Since last year there has been very little credible threat in the Benelux (at least) that has not been almost immediately quashed by the authorities.