Spooky

Gotta wonder about the sudden drop mid-December. Was Regina Lynn having a vacation?

23:14

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Wife of late Dutch 'Greenspan' mentioned in file of terrorist suspect

This is plain weird. According to local newspaper Het Parool Gretta Duisenberg, the widow of former Dutch National and European Central Bank chief Wim Duisenberg, is mentioned in the file of terrorist suspect Samir Azzouz. The file contains a Post-it note with Mrs Duisenberg's telephone number, as well as the words 'phone', 'cooperate', 'invite' and 'three o'clock' (in Dutch, of course). In the Parool article, Mrs. Duisenberg denies knowing Azzouz.

The newspaper goes on to describe accusations of Mrs. Duisenberg aimed at the Dutch intelligence service AIVD, for having placed a wiretap on her phone (George, sure you don't know anything about that?). She says she's certain of being eavesdropped upon because she hears a clicking sound every time she places a call. Right, intelligence agencies still work with technology from old Forsyth novels. Mrs. Duisenberg has courted controversy before: she is an activist for the foundation of a Palestinian state and, rather more controversialy, has compared the situation of the Palestinians with the Holocaust of the Jewish people.

14:45

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Dutch Mohammed T-shirts

Order them here.

Broadsheet NRC Handelsblad quotes the owner of the web store, Mr. Molenwijk, as saying that two Muslims are involved with this enterprise.

It's a smart ploy, since orange is the Dutch national color, and almost everyone in the nation is known to wear something orange during soccer championships. Americans will probably be unaware of this, but the World Soccer Championship is coming up this summer, and to add to the friendly nationalist zeal this always inspires in the Dutch, it takes place in Germany, which is pretty much the arch enemy of the Dutch soccer 'elftal' (team).

It will be interesting to see how many soccer fans will be wearing these shirts in the summer.

11:56

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