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...Reid had another reason for choosing the Netherlands. The country, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, has become a center of al-Qaeda activity. In September, Dutch police raided houses in Rotterdam and picked up Jerome Courtailler, a French convert to Islam arrested as a suspected associate in the Paris-embassy plot and yet another young European who was known to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Dutch investigators now speculate that before he was arrested, Courtailler helped Reid find temporary employment in Rotterdam...
...suspected terrorist. They also find an Uzi submachine pistol and a list of chemicals used to make explosives. Trabelsi is believed to have been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris. Jérôme Courtellier and Mohammed Berkous are taken into custody in raids in Rotterdam Sept. 21, 2001 Lotfi Raissi, believed to have been a flight instructor for four of the hijackers, is arrested in London. French police take in seven people in the Paris suburbs believed to be members of Franco-Algerian militant Djamel Beghal?s network Sept. 25, 2001 Kamel Daoudi apprehended...
...Trying to match European tech firms with American investors gave him the idea for the European Tech Tour Association, a not-for-profit organization based in Geneva and Rotterdam...
...teachers are way more enthusiastic and exciting to listen to than what I am used to back home” says Jan-Willem Muller, a college student from Rotterdam. “They are interesting, fun, and I am learning...
...lesser artists who happened to be around in the same town at the same time. There was no distinctive Delft school. In the 17th century the place harbored only one artist whose talents approached Vermeer's--the slightly older Pieter de Hooch (1629-84), who was originally from Rotterdam but worked in Delft for about five years in the 1650s. Vermeer and De Hooch had several things in common, the main one being that nothing at all is known about the personality of either. They left no letters, kept no journals, inspired no memoirs. However, both were visionary homebodies...