Six Jihadis Nabbed in Netherlands

(The Hague) While Americans are being encouraged to head to the polls today, terrorists continue to plot.

From AFP (via Yahoo!):

Six people have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad, or Islamic holy war, prosecutors said after a year-long investigation.

The suspects, five men and a woman, were arrested in The Hague and Amsterdam late Monday and early Tuesday as part of a probe into an international Islamic terror network launched in November 2005, the prosecutor's office said.

Among the suspects, who were not identified by name, are two Dutch nationals of Moroccan origin, a Turkish man, a Tunisian national, a Moroccan and a sixth with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin said Tuesday.

The six were suspected of "recruiting radical Muslims for the international jihad," a crime under recently amended Dutch laws.

Dutch law was changed in 2004 to make recruiting for jihad a crime. Unfortunately, Dutch judges have been reluctant to convict jihadists unless there is solid evidence that they are about to actually commit a terrorist act. Hopefully, they'll learn to be less timid.