Socialist Party parliamentarian Ronald van Raak says that information from the Dutch intelligence service, AIVD, has come into the hands of criminals after data was stolen from VDC, the intelligence service on the island of Curaçao. Van Raak says that this is perhaps the largest theft of information from any intelligence service, ever. A senior employee of the VDC told its ombudsman that he had to tell a number of Columbians about the security procedures of the VDC upon the orders of the prime minister of Curaçao. A few weeks later, he was ordered to give over all the code words, and thereafter, all data could be copied, including those which had been exchanged between the AIVD and the American intelligence services.
A former agent
of the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) has blackmailed the
Dutch State. He threatened to go public about his secret activities in Afghanistan.
This was stated by Marc Gazenbeek, director legal affairs of the Ministry of
Defense before the court in The Hague. He said that the former agent was
offered half a million Euro in order to remain silent. The MIVD feared that he
would make recordings public from his conversations with other members of its personnel. The former
agent had been a policeman in the past and had business activities in Afghanistan.
He claims that he lost millions of Euros because the MIVD left him to his fate
in Afghanistan.
Sybrand
Buma, leader of the Christian Democrats, says that the Netherlands has an
education problem. Youngsters have to be
educated to understand that they have duties. Therefore, a national service draft
has to be instituted. After high school,
students should be obliged to work for a number of months for a volunteer
organization, the Ministry of Defense or another such social institution. The students can then show that they are
doing something for the Netherlands, and a future employer can see that they
are competent. Buma added that in the
Netherlands, a society has been created where the question “what can I get out
of it?” has become far more dominant than “what can I do for society?” Duties, and not only rights, belong to a functional
society, and recognition of such is lacking in the Netherlands. 
A thirty-two
year old woman from Maastricht has abducted her two children and smuggled them
to Syria. The boy is 8 years old and the
girl is 7 years old. Apparently, the
mother has received help from the jihadi networks, including those in
Maastricht. The father has not given his
permission for the children to be taken out of the Netherlands. The prosecutor in Maastricht said that it is
the first time Dutch children have been abducted to the Caliphate. The intelligence services had indications
that the woman might leave for abroad, but because of lack of detailed
information, no action was undertaken.
Finally, the woman, who is of Chechen origin, departed with a false
passport.
A woman who
delivers newspapers has been attacked and seriously wounded by the horror owl
of Purmerend. In the meantime, the
province has given permission to the municipality to catch the owl. Efforts to capture the owl have been in vain.
Ammonia has escaped from a leak in the cooling system in the
machine room of KLM catering services. The building has been
evacuated. In the meantime, the system has
been repaired, but all food in the building had to be destroyed. There will not be any meals on any KLM
European and intercontinental flights.
It is not known how long the problems will last.
Frank van
Vree, Dean of the Humanities Faculty, has written that the eleven days during
which students occupied the Bunge House, a building of the Amsterdam
University, has cost the university a substantial amount of money. These sums would have been enough to pay
several staff members’ yearly salaries.
Among the costs, Van Vree mentioned vandalized toilets, lost income from
third parties, the costs of failed research projects, extra security and
cleaning, as well as the replacement of the locks on the Bunge House and other university
buildings. There were also the costs of
the mobile police unit, which had to evacuate the students.
Dutch
Pilots: Subsidized Middle-Eastern
Companies Destroy Air France – KLM
The Dutch cabinet
has budgeted an additional 128.8 million euros to be spent over the next five
years on structural improvements in the fight against terrorism and jihadi
threats. Almost 29 million euros will be
used for the security of specific institutions, including parliament and Jewish
institutions. About 69 million euros will
be spent on the intelligence services, and 14 million for rapid response teams.
The analysis undertaken by the NCTV, the National Coordinator for the Fight against
Terror, shows that the current level of threats will last for a long period to
come. 
