Dutch police looking for witnesses of ISIS beheadings in Syria

Police in the Netherlands are looking for witnesses to help connect at least a dozen beheadings in Syria a decade ago to a suspected terrorist arrested in Zuid-Holland. The suspect, nicknamed Abu Khaled al Amni, applied for asylum in the Netherlands in 2019.

The police arrested the then 37-year-old man in Arkel in January 2023. He is still in custody. When he was arrested, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) accused of being a high-ranking member of both Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra. He was believed to be in a top position in the security services of both terrorist organizations at various points, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) announced.

“It is suspected that from his position at IS, he also contributed to war crimes that the organization committed in Syria,” the OM said more than a year ago. This occurred between 2013 and 2018 during the civil war in that country, which began two years earlier and is still ongoing.

Read more: NL Times (Netherlands)