New facts about radical Islamist network in the Netherlands

Just for Dutch people: new research into the Hofstadgroep, the terrorist network that Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Van Gogh, allegedly belongs to. I am one of the journalists participating in the research. Bottom line: the prime minister was on the hit list as well.

Update 28/1/05, 17.35: here's an English language version of our findings by Expatica. Planet Internet, the company which hired me to participate in the research, is somewhere way down.

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Star Trek is now officially dead

I've just finished watching Kobol's Last Gleaming, the 13th and final episode of the first season of Battlestar Galactica. There are no words to do justice to the originality and ingenuity of producer Ronald D. Moore, so I will make no further attempt. Suffice it to say that BSG dwarfs everything that was produced in the past decade: that means Star Trek, the X-Files, and yes, Babylon 5 as well.
BSG may just do for scifi what Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue did in their time for cop shows: rejuvenate the genre, and attract viewers who would in the past not have been interested in scifi. The fact is that SciFi Channel ordered six more scripts before the show even aired in the USA, solely based on ratings in the UK where Sky Channel has bought the rights to air it first.
Brannon and Braga will end where they belong: in the bargain section of my local dvd store.

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