“The AIVD keeps track of figures on Dutch jihadists because part of the jihadist threat to the Netherlands comes from this group. According to the intelligence service, they could pose a security risk upon return.”
Then why are they allowed to return? That’s the forever-unanswered question.
“300 Dutch left on jihad since 2012; 90 returned, 105 killed: Intelligence service,” NL Times, September 6, 2023:
Around 300 Netherlands residents left for Syria and Iraq in recent years with jihadist intentions. About 90 of them have returned to the Netherlands. About 80 minors have also returned, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) reported in its latest state of affairs, which reflects the situation on August 31. Since 2012, approximately 105 adult Dutch jihadists have died in Syria and Iraq, as have 30 children.
Most of those who returned to the Netherlands did so in 2013 and 2014. In addition, approximately 15 adults and 50 children returned to another country in the past five years. In many cases, it concerns a country where they also have citizenship, like Turkey.
According to the AVID, there are still about 100 adult Dutch people in the region, a third of whom are staying in Syrian Kurdish camps or detention centers in northeastern Syria. There are about 25 Dutch people among jihadist groups….
The AIVD keeps track of figures on Dutch jihadists because part of the jihadist threat to the Netherlands comes from this group. According to the intelligence service, they could pose a security risk upon return….
BTeboe says
If they show up at the door as refugees and then return to where they came from for jihad training, vacation, or marrying an underage woman, or for whatever reason, they should not be allowed back into the country. If you can go back you evidently were not persecuted to begin with which is a requirement for claiming asylum and refugee status. When are the Europeans going to pull their head out of their ass?
OLD GUY says
I wonder how many of the 90 are now going to bring the islamic violence to the Netherlands?