Dutch Secret Service Ran Jihad Website
The Dutch intelligence service AIVD has run an Islamic website in order to observe radical Dutch Muslims, De Telegraaf has revealed. The newspaper says it obtained a portion of 5.2 gigabytes in documents on the undercover operation. Other intelligence services, including the Americans', knew nothing about it, according to the newspaper.
The AIVD wanted to keep an eye on radical Muslims via the 'entrapment website'. The website was set up by an AIVD agent, a consultant from outside the service. He was coached for a long time and dispatched by the secret service to get through to Muslim radicals on the Internet.
The site was hastily closed down by the secret service when plans arose within the forum of Muslim radicals for hacking important websites. "Nobody would dare take responsibility if it came out that these Jihad hackers were facilitated by the AIVD," according to one source.
