Mon dieu! You say zere was a bumb found in zee boy's bedroom?
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| 'Bomb' found in Dutch boy's room | ||
| 2005-07-13 | ||
A 17-year-old boy who stored home-made explosives at his parents' home has been arrested by Dutch police. The boy was detained by Amsterdam police investigating the Hofstad group - an alleged Islamist militant network. It is not clear whether he has ties with the group that is suspected of being linked to the killing of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh. Prosecutors said a makeshift explosive device was found in the room of the boy, who has not been named.
Additional: ANP said the security services had been keeping a watch on the youth as part of their investigation into the so-called Hofstad group of radical Islamists, which had contacts with the suspected killer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. The youth had been active in MSN chatrooms, expounding radical views, and had sent threatening messages to right-wing politician Geert Wilders, the agency said. ANP said the youth was of Dutch-British origin and had converted to Islam when he was 14. | ||
| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 Religious artifact, perhaps? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-13 16:17 |
| #9 Is Infernal Machine still viable? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-13 14:42 |
| #8 Small world. Still wouldn't want to paint it, though. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-07-13 14:00 |
| #7 Sources close to the investigation told ANP that intercepted telephone calls showed the youth seemed to have been out to get Independent right-wing MP Geert Wilders. The MP also confirmed on Wednesday that the teen, who is the administrator of radical Islamic newsgroups, was suspected of threatening him via the internet. Our "fake" Murat was posting from the Netherlands. His rantings sounded like something a teenager would write. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-07-13 13:12 |
| #6 Instead of "bomb," how about "school project?" Do they have madrassas in Holland? |
| Posted by: James 2005-07-13 11:35 |
| #5 Mon dieu! You say zere was a bumb found in zee boy's bedroom? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-07-13 11:16 |
| #4 Hofstad Group? Sounds like some kind of Dutch or German beer. Convert to Religion of Notice how only a tiny number of Moooslims, all males, condemn the terrorists. The total absence of Mooooslim women is astounding! Don't the mothers of these would-be (BBC's termed bombers) murderers have anything to say? By the way, the BBC's refusal to call these monsters anything but bombers ought to remind all British people that the BBC is subsidized by taxpayer pounds! Let the BBC go the way of the private sector, and it will have an auidence similar to Air America ... about 10 Marxist-Leninist profs that hang out at Oxford. |
| Posted by: Sneth Throluger6439 2005-07-13 10:51 |
| #3 It never ceases to amaze me. That we (Westerner's) are always bashed because we don't understand Islam. Yet, instead of changing the countries they live in through voteing (would of been easier for them had the not did 9/11).The left was already sympathetic with them. They could of pushed the Palestinian cause all the way to upper levels of goverment, if they were just patient, something I keep being told "they are patient". Just look at how they were making headway in many European countries. When they attacked on 9/11, they succeced in dividing people in those European countries (as well as the US). But then they start to kill innocents in other countries, which changes the minds of some of the people that were for them, but only stengthens the beliefs of those against them. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-07-13 10:31 |
| #2 We should offer them "thingy". We've been waay too stingy with it, keeping it to ourselves. It serves so well in so many situations. Not as all-purpose as "shit" or "damn", and nothing comes close to "fuck", of course, but "thingy" is pretty good. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-13 10:22 |
| #1 Love Auntie Beeb's scare quotes: 'Bomb' The office said in a statement that the device consisted of a tube filled with gun powder, small bullets and a detonation mechanism. Okay, I give up. What is that? What would be a better, BBC-approved word for that? 'Amusement'? If it had been found outside of the Beeb's bureau, something tells me they would recognize it as a device intended to destroy their property and kill as many people standing nearby as possible. But I'm still having a hard time coming up with the right word for that. Any help? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-07-13 10:15 |