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2004-12-15 Europe

Possible Belgian link to Van Gogh murder

Dutch police are investigating a possible Belgian link to the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, it was reported on Tuesday. Two Belgian newspapers said the Dutch inquiries are focused on a Belgian-Moroccan, identified as Abdelkader Hakimi. A delegation of Dutch police officers travelled to Brussels on Tuesday.

"Woohoo, Hans! We're going to Belgium. First round of waffles on me!"
"Thanks, Willem. I like mine with Nutella."

Hakimi is alleged to have had the telephone number of Ismael A. in his address book, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported. A. was arrested with another terror suspect after a 14-hour stand-off in The Hague on 10 November. The Amsterdam Moroccan is accused of planning to murder Dutch MPs Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. He was also in contact with Dutch-Moroccan Mohammed B., the man suspected of killing Van Gogh. Besides Mohammed B., six other men are currently being detained in connection with Van Gogh's murder last month. They have all been linked to the suspected terror network, Hofstadgroep (Main City Group). In total 12 people have been arrested as investigations into the network continue.

Meanwhile, Belgian police suspect Hakimi is the European leader of the militant Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.

Is that the same as the GSPC, Salifist Group for Preaching and Combat?

No, but it's an easy mistake to make.

The terrorist group is believed to have links to al-Qaeda and is suspected of being involved in the Casablanca and Madrid bombings. Hakimi was sentenced to death in absentia in Morocco in 1985. After returning from Afghanistan, he has worked in a snack bar in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Belgium. He was arrested in Belgium in March on terrorism charges.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-15 12:30:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Moroccan Islamist Combatant Group (GICM) is an off-shoot of Salafi Jihad, the Moroccan analogue to the Algerian GSPC. They're all very closely inter-linked and coordinated through al-Qaeda though, so it's quite easy to make a mistake between the two.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-12-15 3:44:00 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-12-15 3:44:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, pahdnah, the Rantburg Group for Kvetching and Snarking, "EATME" after translation into, er, something, will take 'em on!

Posted by .com 2004-12-15 3:54:16 AM|| 2004-12-15 3:54:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember Holland: I got lost there one night while driving back to Belgium from Germany. It took me an extra 20 minutes to get home. Actually, I found living in Brussels to be a strange experience: we were informed that by law, residents were only required to allow the police in M-F 9:00-17:00. It was explained that the police were so corrupt that they weren't to be trusted outside those hours. Certainly they were not effective at stopping the child abduction rings (it was strongly suspected that those were being run out of the Security dept. for the pleasure of Dutch pedophiles and pornographers). I kept my children always within arm's reach in those days. Lots of strange things occurred behind closed doors in that country, without the neighbors or the police paying any attention. Not to mention the regular theft of unknown numbers of blank Belgian passports from village registration offices.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-15 7:48:59 AM|| 2004-12-15 7:48:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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