Dispatch from the Netherlands Foreign Press Foundation (FPF)

Holland - an American

'Lapdog of War'.

Today: Dutch F-16 fighter bombers arrived at 1530 hrs on the "Killing Air Fields" of Afghanistan, assisting Dutch "Special Forces with a License to Kill." *

by Henk Ruyssenaars, FPF Senior Correspondent, March 29, 2005

The Netherlands - With hardly a word said, and keeping the information out of the Dutch 'news', some hours ago four Dutch F-16 bomber fighters landed at a Kabul air base in Afghanistan.

They are supposed to stay at least a year, and help in what the Dutch parliament has called American "Kill and Destroy" actions. Afghanistan has never attacked Holland nor given a Declaration of War, and according to the Geneva Convention and international law, the war and occupation is illegal. As illegal is the war in Iraq. Ergo: like the Americans, the Dutch are now war criminals.*

'Expected war criminals', according to the American government's information service 'Associated Press' today*: "American officials say fixing the runway at Bagram will make it suitable for Dutch F-16 fighters expected to deploy this year to support the separate NATO-run security force in Afghanistan. U.S. forces have begun vacating Shindand Air Base, near the Iranian border, as NATO expands its 8,500-strong force into the west."

Contrary to European thinking and popular wishes, pro-US criminals within NATO are secretly drawing Europe further into the American quagmires; to fight, get killed and have the taxpayers foot the (secret) bill: "The United States is pouring $83 million into upgrading its main military bases in Afghanistan, an Air Force general said Monday, in a sign that American forces will likely be needed in the country for years to come as al-Qaida remains active in the region." [Killing fields Afghanistan: http://tinyurl.com/2l8ku ]


The fact that NATO 'expands' and is misused to guard US oil pipelines and kill local people has only been possible because the US neocons have been putting the 'National Shame of the Netherlands' - Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - as super stooge at the top of NATO, a spineless figure with niether a brain or shame. AP: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Kabul this month that Washington had not decided how long to keep troops in the country, which neighbors Iran, Pakistan and oil rich Central Asia."

It is a known fact that the whole country - one of the poorest in the whole world - is unsafe for any foreign being. As is shown daily by attacks, like yesterday's explosion which damaged a Canadian Embassy vehicle and injured one Canadian. The bomb left a five-foot-wide crater next to the road. Even the capital Kabul is off limits and out of bounds after dark. So much for all the freedom...

WRONG ABOUT THE DUTCH NEOCONS

In many headlines critical of the war in Iraq it's often referred that: "Italy, Holland, Ukraine and Poland are all set to withdraw troops from Iraq this year. But one nation has marched out of step with them. In this respect we shall look at one headline. In February Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that he will double his "boots on the ground" in Iraq."

Worse than the Australian crooks, the dutch 'managers' have with a lot of fanfare and media noise pulled back a few troops from South Iraq, but will go on there with military police supposedly training local police. Worse however still is the fact that Holland is sending hundreds of 'commandos', Special Dutch/US trained Forces, with a 'license to kill'. http://tinyurl.com/5vhq6]

So instead of winding down the war in Iraq, the multinational 'managers' in the Netherlands, with their comliant and industrial media keep faking, or don't give any news at all. The result being that the dutch taxpayers don't have a clue and are not even informed about what you've been reading here; about the squandering of millions of their Euros on inhumane war actions in Afghanistan. With only a few members of parliament asking ''why we should
take part in those illegal 'Kill and Destroy' actions''?

They never get an answer, the media keep lying and the Afghanis die.

The Dutch government caricatures and their warmongering 'managers' ought to end up in court soon; for their despicable media, and war criminal behavior.

The US neocon blueprint all over the country has to be torn apart: for the benefit of people in all US - war beseiged countries.

The 'government' held reponsible for this killing in the Netherlands calls itself 'Christian' too, but represents just an 'American Lapdog of War.'

Those collaborators are a shame for humanity.

But their turn will come.

Henk Ruyssenaars


* Dutch 'Special Forces' Kill and Destroy for the US - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6mpw2

* Afghanistan - Torturing and killing for 'Freedom'? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4nf2b

* AP - English - - Dutch F-16's at the Bagram base Url.: http://tinyurl.com/47zvr

* Dutch Air Force web site confirming F-16 arrival in Kabul
in Dutch - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4wc52


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