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October 18, 2005
Holland: "Farewell Video" Led to Islamists' Arrests
The recent raid in Holland, in which 7 suspected Islamists were detained in locations in the Hague, Amsterdam and Almere, were triggered by the discovery of a video taken by one of the suspects, Samir Azzouz, according to Expatica. In Friday's raids, six men aged 18 to 30 were arrested, and one woman.
Apparently, 19 year old Azzouz had made a video in which he referred to an act he "had carried out", justice officials claimed. AIVD, the Dutch intelligence agency who have had Azzouz under surveillance since his return from Chechnya in 2003, obtained a copy of this video, and gave it to the national detective service, which consequently ordered the raids.
The eight-minute video is in Arabic (Azzouz is from a Moroccan family) and the "act" which he claims to have "carried out" is unknown. Police suspect he was plotting a suicide attack. He had apparently been trying to obtain explosives and automatic weapons prior to his arrest. Victor Koppe, Azzouz's lawyer, has expressed doubts concerning the police's interpretation of the video's contents.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 18, 2005 8:53 PM
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