Evidence of Government-sponsored Al Qaeda in Netherlands

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A Dutch writer was assassinated after accusing the security services of creating an Al Qaeda cell. This was covered on the Internet after the murder in November 2005. The issue was raised at the National Union of Journalists’ annual conference earlier this month.

Louis Seveke, 41, was shot twice in the head while he was kneeling down on 15 November in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He was a left activist who published a book about the security services and wrote for a well-respected Netherlands broadsheet. Family and friends put up a website about him and wrote: “As Seveke was very active in the left-wing political scene, it is feared that the police will never find a suspect.”

His last article was published in the broadsheet on 3 November 2005 entitled: ‘The government must not cover up its own role in terror.’ It explored the modus operandi of the Dutch security services, which he had been investigating for years. He reported that the security services’ standard practice was to use informers and criminal infiltrators against left groups. They even act as agent provocateurs and provide bombs and weapons, he said.

He was following up a report in the broadsheet and Dutch TV that revealed that hand grenades found in the possession of a suspected Al-Qaeda group, Hofstadgroep, was supplied to them by a man who was an Dutch security services agent. The man had figured in various terrorist investigations but had never been charged. Seveke’s report claimed that the security services had uncovered a group they had created – a fake Al Qeada cell. His scepticism has some public support but is rarely reflected in Dutch media.

His death, though, could be linked to his active support for squatters in Netherlands who are getting in the way of powerful property interests in Nijmegen.

At the NUJ conference, there was a motion calling on the union to posthumously make a Dutch, writer a member. The motion was rejected on the basis that there was no precedent for this.

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