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In early March 2008, Belgian newspapers broke the news that Abdelkader Belliraj (photo), a dangerous terrorist with dual Belgian/Moroccan ci...

May 25, 2008 . Memorial Day ceremony at Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waregem , Belgium. This was my first visit to the cemetery, the fi...

One of the neighbours, Tom from over at The Redhunter , paid a weeklong visit to Israel starting on May 1. His account of the journey is a m...

Jews have a 3,000 year history of being persecuted . This goes indeed back to Biblical times, when they were either enslaved by the Pharaohs...

While making a nuisance of myself over at Atlas Shrugs I stumbled on a great photo over there. But first... I was wrong. Five months ago, I ...

On April 2, 2008 the Belgian Navy officially acquired a new frigate, which it purchased from the Dutch Navy . The latter, for a small count...

General Peter Van Uhm , newly appointed Dutch Commander Armed Forces, did not keep his son out of harm's way. Last Thursday, April 18 , ...

And now for something completely different. With all those Allahu Hackbars around a man would forget the things which make life worthwile. A...

As you can see from the last but one post, LiveLeak pulled "Fitna" again. So we had to look for another source, see below. All o...

Dutch version, couldn't get an English version embedded. With thanks to Bart Debie . This 15-minute "movie" shouldn't be a...

February 2004 . Jose Maria Aznar , Spain's PM of the rightwing Partido Popular , can look back on eight years of unprecedented successes...