Zacht Ei - Jihadists want to target Red-Light District

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Jihadists want to target Red-Light District
A very unwise move, tactically speaking. First, we kinda like the red-light district, locally known as De Wallen. Not because it makes it easier to find a prostitute (I never got more offers for - er - 'horizontal refreshments' than the first time I visited Vegas), but mostly because it brings in a lot of tourists. Second, De Wallen are entangled with the underworld, as Pieter points out. Those guys won't bother with due process. They will protect what they see as 'theirs'. The Netherlands have seen quite a lot of assassinations amongst criminals. If a Jihadi decides De Wallen are fair game, guess what will happen?
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This is an angle on the story I have not seen considered elsewhere. Presumably the jihadis had so source their guns and grenades from somewhere too... Depending on the structure of social networks linking mafia-type criminal gangs running prostitution and drug dealing and those selling illgal weapons there may be mafia-type individuals well placed to know who the jihadis are. Then again, the jihadis seem to have had at least one person planted in the Dutch security services so these lines of sight along chains of relationship work in multiple directions.

Ghost of a flea (ip:64.231.73.45) 12 December 2004 - 15:46 uur

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