Immigration 4 Islamists convicted for planning terror attacks in the Netherlands

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BBC news : Dutch court convicts Islamists

A Dutch court has sentenced four militant Islamists to prison for planning terror attacks on politicians and the Dutch intelligence service.

Samir Azzouz, 20, was sentenced to eight years while three others received terms of between three and four years.

Some of the group were alleged to have links to the so-called Hofstad group, whose leader was convicted of the killing of film-maker Theo Van Gogh.
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The presiding judge said Dutch-Moroccan Azzouz, the ringleader of the group, had been striving to carry out his terrorist aims for several years.
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During the six-week trial, the court was shown a suicide video, automatic weapons and manuals explaining how to turn mobile phones into detonators.

In its ruling the court said that the suicide video, made by Azzouz, was meant to "strike fear into the Dutch people".
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The media certainly make much less noise about planned or failed terrorist attacks than the ones that succeeded. Yet, it is important to praise the security services of a country for thwarting such attacks.