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2008-04-21 Afghanistan

Taliban says they killed Dutch soldiers over film

The Taliban said a deadly attack on Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan was in retaliation for an anti-Islamic film made by a politician from the Netherlands, a U.S. terrorism monitoring service said on Sunday.

The son of the new chief of the Dutch military and another Dutch soldier serving with NATO-led forces were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Friday. The attack was one of "a sequence of missions taking revenge for the insulting film", the Taliban said in a message in Arabic on its website, according to the terrorism monitoring service of a U.S. author and analyst who goes by the pseudonym Laura Mansfield.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, launched the anti-Koran film "Fitna" -- an Arabic term that can mean strife -- on the Internet last month. The film urges Muslims to tear out "hate filled" verses from the Koran, and includes a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has repeatedly said that the government rejects Wilders' views.

This article starring:
Geert Wilders
Jan Peter Balkenende
Laura Mansfield

Posted by Fred 2008-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
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#1 I wonder what their excuse would have been had Fitna never been conceived.

Payback time.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-21 04:39|| 2008-04-21 04:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Very sad. This is exactly why Islam will not survive in the 21st Century. It will not be possible for them to murder enough people to make people want to return to their cave-man ways. It's over, losers. Get with the program.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-21 07:03|| 2008-04-21 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Woodrow,
I would not be so sure. Between spiritual weakness and lack of reproduction Europe is falling fast. A big chunk of the US is ready to substitute 'Muslim' for 'Red' in the old saying 'Better Red than Dead' (somebody will come up with a clever slogan sooner or later.)
Sad, true, but unless we start breeding more sheepdogs, the wolves will prevail over the flock.

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-04-21 07:39|| 2008-04-21 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Retaliate.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-21 08:54|| 2008-04-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Proving once again that Geert Wilders is absolutely correct and is also one of the few Europeans with any kind of a survival instinct.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-04-21 12:14|| 2008-04-21 12:14|| Front Page Top

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