arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

NATO Air Force intelligence officer turns out to be neo-Nazi

A woman intelligence officer for the F-16 aircraft squadron at the Dutch NATO air base Gilze-Rijen turns out to be the girlfriend of the Fuehrer of the Dutch neo-Nazi party, Nederlandse Volksunie. This is certainly not the first Nazi scandal in the Dutch/NATO armed forces

sources: Dutch TV teletext; Vrij Nederland [Social Democrat] weekly

Gilze-Rijen is a NATO air base in the South of The Netherlands. Often, it is the "target" of peace demonstrations. From here, during the 1999 war against Yugoslavia, F-16 aircraft started their deathly missions to the Balkans.

Today, it became known that a woman intelligence [in plain English, espionage] officer for that F-16 aircraft squadron at the air base Gilze-Rijen is the girlfriend of Constant Kusters from Arnhem. Kusters is the Fuehrer of the Dutch neo-Nazi party, Nederlandse Volksunie. The Nederlandse Volksunie openly honours leaders of the Third Reich, like Hitler and Rudolf Hess. It is the oldest neo-Nazi party in The Netherlands, from which later groups split off directly or indirectly. Before Custers took over, its leader was Joop Glimmerveen, now a pensioner, ex-Korea War veteran, later financial official of the NATO headquarters in the Dutch government city The Hague. Its deputy leader was Roeland Raes, elected Senator for the Belgian extreme Right party Vlaams Blok. Raes recently caused a scandal when interviewed on TV, by Holocaust "revisionism" and claiming that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery. The Vlaams Blok, especially their foundation "Volk in Nood", is a major funnel for Belgian taxpayers money to Croat and Kosovo Albanian extreme Right nationalists during 1991 and later wars in (ex-)Yugoslavia. Vlaams Blok members participated in a recent Nazi march in the Dutch town Kerkrade in memory of Hitler's 1933 takeover. It was led by Constant Kusters, the boyfriend of the Gilze Rijen intelligence officer.

This is certainly not the first Nazi scandal in the Dutch/NATO armed forces. In 2000, Yugoslav police arrested a group of Dutch self styled tourists, ex-soldiers, who brought weapons, including a Hitler Youth dagger, to Serbia. They were accused of assasination plans; but released later in 2000. At least one of those arrrested had been in the Centrumpartij'86, a neo-Nazi party founded more recently than the Nederlandse Volksunie. Its name is now Nieuwe Nationale Partij. It is a sister party of the British National Party. Like the BNP, the NNP thinks open Hitler worship is bad electoral public relations, and so it tries to appear more "moderate racist".

Also in 2000, it turned out that at the Dutch barracks for training the Airborne Mobile Brigade, the Armed Forces unit for "humanitarian" interventions in "third world" and/or "rogue" states, officers brought the Nazi salute, and non-white recruits were abused. Similar incidents happened with Dutch troops in Bosnia.

Kusters' girlfriend is now a public relations liability to her employer. So, the Dutch Air Force has started a dismissal procedure against her ... NOW, not earlier.

Remember General Wesley Clark, NATO commander of the bombing of Yugoslavia? Remember his claim on TV of NATO standing for "a multicultural society"? Not only the hundreds of thousands of Roma, Serbs, Gorani, Kosovo Turks, Bosnian Muslims, Jews, dissident Kosovo Albanians, etc., driven out of Kosovo since 1999, while NATO stood bye smiling, would like to ask some questions on this.