Posts Tagged: AIVD
‘Salafist Police’ Are Targeting Westernized European Muslims
Some call them the Salafist police. Others say they are just ordinary extremists. Either way, they are terrorizing other Muslims in the Netherlands, radicalizing Muslim...
Is 2023 the Year of Jihad’s Resurgence?
A machete attack in New York's Times Square. A stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris. A foiled plot in Germany. A shooting in...
Islamic Terrorists Target Europe — and Jews
Coronavirus isn't the only threat Europe is now facing. On Friday, police in Spain arrested a Moroccan man on suspicion he was planning a terrorist...
Is Europe Facing Another Decade of Jihad?
For most of Europe, the end of 2019 marked the close of a decade of jihad, of terrorist attacks in the streets, of bombers, shooters,...
Dutch Court Case Reignites Europe’s Focus on ISIS Children
He is a handsome boy, about 9 or 10 years old, with large, pale green eyes and dark hair. He speaks softly, conversing with a...
European Intelligence Officials: Islamist Terror Threat Is as Strong as Ever
It has become "the new normal," a structural part of 21st-century life. And the jihadist threat against the West is just as strong now as...
Latest Attack, Travel Warning, Expose Depth of Holland’s Terror Threat
Mention Holland, and most people think of brightly-colored tulips, gently-flowing canals, legal marijuana, and Rembrandt. But there is an underside. The US State Department issued a travel...
Europe Gambles on De-Radicalization Programs as Terror Threat Rises
For the past several weeks, the news out of Syria and Iraq has been consistent and decisive: The Islamic State is losing ground. Battered by...
Europe’s Terror Challenges: The Returnee Threat
Another week has brought another barrage of headlines illustrating the depth of Europe's terror threat. The following examples came during a 24-hour window earlier this month: "Schiphol...
With Terror Threat Growing, Europe Changes Course
Sixteen years ago, when Dutch commentator Paul Scheffer published his "Multicultural Drama" declaring that multiculturalism in the Netherlands had failed, the response was swift and...
Dutch Intelligence: Competition Could Fuel Jihadi Plots
The Netherlands' Intelligence Service (AIVD) is predicting a "large scale, spectacular attack in Europe or the US." And, they say, it could happen very soon. AIVD's report on 2015,...
Europe’s Young ISIS Recruits: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
For weeks, Farid Bouamran, a Dutch-Moroccan immigrant who has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years, watched as his son Achraf became increasingly radicalized, tuning in to...
