Posts Tagged ‘Amsterdam’

Geert Wilders Most Likely Next Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Written on October 31st, 2010 by alpineski2 shouts
The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders is leading both of the nation’s major opinion polls. While the party currently holds only nine seats of the 150 ...

‘Freedom of speech has limits’ say prosecutors in hate speech trial

Written on October 13th, 2010 by alpineskino shouts
AMSTERDAM- Populist politician Geert Wilders’s negative views of Islam – he has called it “retarded” and “inherently violent” – are his opinions, not irrefutable facts, Dutch prosecutors argued yesterday at ...

Al-Qaeda practises beating body scanners

Written on December 29th, 2009 by alpineskione shout
A body scanner at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport would not necessarily have detected the explosives which the would-be syringe bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had sewn into his underwear. A Dutch military ...