The system worked

Myrtus reports on how Mohammed Bouyeri nearly got hired at Schiphol Airport as a security agent.
The important word here is 'nearly'.
Bouyeri got rejected at the moment they did the obligatory background check - in other words, at the moment this should have happened.
Mind you, at the time, Bouyeri hadn't yet fallen in with radical Islam. He had a criminal record for having been involved in a brawl in 1997.
There've been a number of people commenting on this, most of them along the lines of 'how close we came to danger'.
Instead, this is a prime example how affairs should be conducted in a civilized country. Bouyeri had every right to apply for that job, just as much as the security services had a duty to stop him from getting it.
The system worked.

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