During a visit to America, Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin met with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to discuss the ways the Netherlands deals with ‘local terrorists’, such as Mohammed Bouyeri. Trouw reports that the American were particularly interested in the ways national security services in the Netherlands work.
In the wake of criticism of the ways she handled the Christmas Day would-be bomber Abdulmutallab, Janet Napolitano discusses the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to respond.
Janet Napolitano’s had this to say in assessment of domestic security this week: “These recent arrests should remove any remaining comfort that some might have had that if we fight the terrorist abroad, we won’t have to fight them here,” she said. “If only the world were that simple. The fact is that home-based terrorism…
