Nederlandsk politi arresterte 12 somaliere julaften, mistenkt for planer om umiddelbar terror. Men hva målet var, sies det ikke noe om.

«The (AIVD) message reports that a number of Somalis wanted to make a terrorist attack in the Netherlands in the short term,» the prosecutors said. They did not say what the intended target was.

Reuters korrespondent gjør en direkte kobling mellom terrorplanene og fremgangen til Geert Wilders parti. Som om parlamentarisk fremgang på noen som helst måte kan rettferdiggjøre politisk vold, for ikke å snakke om terror. Reuters fremstilling legitimerer terror.

Since October, the anti-Muslim Freedom Party led by Geert Wilders has backed a new minority Liberals-Christian Democrat government, which plans to restrict immigration and ban the full-body covering burqa worn by Muslim women.

«Jihadists consider the Netherlands as a legitimate target because of the Dutch presence in Afghanistan, even while our mission has ended. The tougher Islam debate is also a factor that shapes jihadists’ view of the Netherlands,» a spokeswoman for the Dutch counterterrorism unit NCTb said.

She said the Netherlands is home to about 27,000 Somalis out of a total of 1.9 million Dutch citizens with a non-western background, according to data from Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

Somalis were the largest sub-Saharan asylum group in the Netherlands, most often unemployed, and young men aged between 15 and 25 were relatively often involved in criminal activities, a study commissioned by CBS found in 2005.

Dutch police arrest Somalis over terrorism plot