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### Viewing cable 03THEHAGUE1453, DUTCH COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST TERRORIST SUSPECTS

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03THEHAGUE1453 | 2003-06-06 15:03 | 2011-01-18 17:05 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy The Hague
Appears in these articles: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/01/18/amerikanen-de-aivd-keek-neer-op-nctb/

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 THE HAGUE 001453

    SIPDIS

    Sensitive

    DEPT FOR S/CT, EB/ESC/ESP, EAP/PIMBS, EUR/ERA, EUR/UBI

    JUSTICE FOR DAAG SWARTZ AND OIA/JUDI FRIEDMAN
    BRUSSELS FOR KERBER, WONG, RICHARD

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PTER ASEC KCRM PREL CASC ETTC XG NL EUN
    SUBJECT: DUTCH COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST TERRORIST SUSPECTS

    REF: 2002 THE HAGUE 03525

    ¶1. (SBU) Summary: On June 5, the District Court of Rotterdam
    acquitted all twelve suspects charged (under a variety of
    statutes) for offenses related to the provision of support to
    a terrorist organization. This was the second such loss for
    the government before the same court, following the December
    2002 acquittal of four men accused of providing support in a
    plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In the new case, the
    presiding judge refused to allow "unverified" intelligence
    information to serve as evidence and disallowed the
    prosecution´s use of "wartime" statutes in a peacetime
    terrorism case. The prosecutor´s office announced that it
    would appeal the decision because it disagreed with the
    court´s ruling on the use of intelligence. The outcome has
    strengthened political support in the Netherlands for new laws
    giving prosecutors new tools in terrorism cases. Amb. Sobel
    has scheduled meetings with the Justice Minister and attorney
    general to accelerate existing bilateral cooperation aimed at
    strengthening Dutch counterterrorism laws. End summary.

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    A Catch-all of Charges
    ----------------------

    ¶2. (SBU) Twelve alleged Muslim extremists, including five
    Algerians, one Moroccan, one Mauritanian, one Iraqi, one
    Libyan, one Egyptian and two Dutch nationals of Turkish and
    Moroccan descent respectively, stood trial before the
    Rotterdam District Court, Judge S.J. Van Klaveren presiding,
    on May 12-20. They were charged with participation in a
    criminal organization, providing assistance to the enemy at
    times of war, forging travel documents, people smuggling, drug
    trafficking, violation of the Dutch Arms and Ammunition Act,
    trafficking in identity documents, and forgery. The
    prosecution accused them of belonging to radical Islamic
    networks and engaging in recruitment of young Muslims for
    "Jihad."

    ¶3. (SBU) During the course of the trial, it became clear that
    most of the charges could not be proven. Prosecutor Jo Valente
    was therefore obliged to take the unusual step of dropping
    most of the charges before the trial concluded. He conceded
    that he could not prove most charges but that he had
    nonetheless persevered because of "the seriousness of the
    threat and impact of terrorist action on society." He argued
    that it was virtually impossible to corroborate intelligence
    information as long as suspects do not carry out their plans
    and refuse to talk. He called the existence of terrorist
    networks equally hard to prove, and complained about
    disappointing intelligence cooperation with such countries as
    France, Germany and Morocco. There was no doubt that most
    suspects embraced anti-western views and had hardly any ties
    with Dutch society but the question was whether it could be
    proven that they actually committed criminal offenses.

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    Charges Not Proven
    ------------------

    ¶4. (SBU) The Judge had no trouble reaching the same conclusion
    - that most charges could not be proven. The judge opined
    that, although it had been established that several defendants
    maintained contact with each other, it did not appear from
    either statements that were made by the defendants or
    intercepted telephone conversations or material found during
    house searches that they were part of a criminal organization.
    Nor did he find compelling the prosecution´s evidence that
    this was in fact a "network" organization. He also dismissed
    the charge of "providing assistance or attempting to provide
    assistance to the enemy in time of war" because he said the
    Netherlands was not at war with Afghanistan, the Taliban, Al
    Qaeda and/or other pro-Taliban fighters during the period
    covered by the charges.

    ¶5. (SBU) Consequently, he acquitted all suspects, with the
    exception of two convicted for the possession of forged
    documents, receiving prison sentences of two and four months
    respectively. Four suspects had already been released from
    custody during the trial because they faced possible prison
    sentences shorter than the time they had spent in pre-trial
    detention. The judge ordered the release of the others when he
    issued his verdict. Several of them, however, were rearrested
    on charges of illegal immigration.

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    Limits on Intelligence in the Courtroom
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    ¶6. (SBU) The case turned in large part on the admissibility of
    intelligence information. In a previous case, the same court
    acquitted four suspects on December 18, 2002 (reftel) ruling
    the prosecutor had failed to corroborate intelligence
    information. It therefore came as no surprise that the court
    again decided June 5 to acquit all suspects in light of the
    absence of any substantive evidence to corroborate
    intelligence information - the source of which the government
    declined to reveal in court. Judge Van Klaveren explicitly
    ruled that intelligence information as such could not serve as
    evidence of any charge unless its origin and accuracy can be
    verified.

    ¶7. (SBU) The prosecutor´s office immediately announced that it
    would file an appeal against the District Court´s decision
    because it disagreed with the court´s ruling that intelligence
    cannot be used as evidence. Spokesmen for the ruling Christian
    Democrat (CDA) and Liberal (VVD) parties as well as the
    opposition Labor and populist List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) parties
    opined that the law should be changed to permit the use of
    intelligence information as evidence under certain
    circumstances. The party spokesmen also endorsed the opinion
    voiced during the trial by Chief Attorney General Joan de
    Wijkerslooth, in favor of making recruiting for the "Jihad" a
    specific criminal offense in the Dutch Criminal Code.

    ¶8. (SBU) Comment: Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner (who
    supports use of intelligence in court proceedings) has
    received his wake up call. The outcome of the trial is already
    helping to galvanize governmental, parliamentary, and public
    support for new judicial tools to target terrorism. Embassy is
    consulting with the Dutch on "best practices" - e.g., means of
    establishing a mechanism for the use of intelligence
    information in court; strengthening action on terrorist
    financing; expanding the nascent use of undercover infiltrants
    in terrorism cases. In the wake of this ruling, Amb. Sobel has
    scheduled meetings with Justice Minister Donner and Chief
    Attorney General De Wijkerlslooth to accelerate existing
    bilateral cooperation aimed at strengthening Dutch
    counterterrorism laws. We will look to Washington agencies for
    support and expertise. End Comment.

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