Wednesday November 10, 2004

Dutch war on terror

Posted by Rob (#1) on November 10, 2004 14:06 CET

So far, I'm not disappointed in my government's efforts to fight a war on terrorism.

Dutch police were locked in a standoff with an unknown number of terrorism suspects (the "Hofstad group") holed up in a house in The Hague Wednesday after three officers were wounded by a hand grenade during a raid on the home, authorities said.

Authorities closed the air space over the city to small planes during the operation.

The neighborhood has been sealed and I've read news reports that "hundreds of policemen" are surrounding the building. I've heard rumors that there might be plans to get tanks involved. Good stuff.

Update: rumors of tanks and helicopters appear to be false.

Update II: here are some photos of the The Hague siege. I don't know about the rest of the blogosphere, but this pretty much feels like warblogging.

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