From Reuters, with thanks to the One Who Must Not Be Named.
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands faces a “substantial” terrorism threat and must stage regular drills to boost readiness to cope with a possible attack, a senior government official told a Dutch newspaper yesterday. Tijbbe Joustra, National Coordinator for Fight against Terrorism, told Algemeen Dagblad in an interview that the government should make greater efforts to prepare and inform the population about the threat of terrorism.“An attack is quite possible. There are no concrete indications as to when or how, but Al Qaeda’s range of ideas expands enormously,” Joustra said. “There is talk of faster radicalisation. Therefore we speak about a substantial threat.” Following last year’s train bomb attacks in Madrid and London’s transport system bombings, fears have grown of similar attacks in the Netherlands, which supported the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and sent troops there after the war.
Actually, this still seems to me rather escapistic. It reduces the threat to terrorism, whereas the Netherlands are much more at risk from the low-level violence of its intractable and unteachable Muslim minority.
big mistake by the fascists, i think. if they just wait a couple more decades, they can walk in and get handed the keys. this doesn't seem like AQ's modus, they're great long-range planners, it seems counterproductive to me.
maybe though, the reference to faster radicalization indicates they're feeling pressure?
maybe they think the dutch need a shot of whoopass to bring'em back into dhimmi-line, then they can continue their demographic assault.
Muslim immigration.....what a treat for all to be had.
And what did they think all the "guestworkers" were going to be doing by this late date?
Or didn't the Dutch bother to remember the story behind the meaning of the croissant, being too busy eating Space Cake to recall a funny little detail like the Ottoman Empire?
History is a bitch. (And she doesn't like to be forgotten.)
Now to trick is how to dis-invite the guests back to Mecca. (Or Istambul. Or Fez.)