Where the Hell Are the Hell’s Angels When We Need Them?

Members of the Dutch  'No Surrender' biker gang  (AFP Photo/Olaf Kraak)

Members of the Dutch ‘No Surrender’ biker gang (AFP Photo/Olaf Kraak)

Responding to reports that members of Dutch motorcycle gangs are going to Iraq to join the Peshmerga and fight ISIS/ISIL, public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin has announced that “joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it’s no longer forbidden. . . . You just can’t join a fight against the Netherlands.”

Head of the No Surrender Gang, Klaas Otto, told the media that three members who traveled to near Mosul in northern Iraq were from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda.

A photograph on a Dutch-Kurdish Twitter account shows a tattooed Dutchman called Ron in military garb, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle while seated with a Kurdish comrade.

It’s still illegal for Dutch nationals to join ISIS/ISIL or fight for the Kurdish PKK, still considered a terrorist group. And, of course, torture and rape are not permitted—no matter whom you fight for.

To date, the few Americans who have gone to Iraq-Syria to fight against ISIS-ISIL are apparently outnumbered by a baker’s dozen of Americans—and of course thousands of Brits and French—who have gone to fight for it.

President Obama’s Wizard of OZ-like antiterrorist coalition of 60 nations needs further expansion, particularly because of Turkey’s embarrassing refusal to play ball. National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced on “Meet the Press” that the Turks had agreed, belatedly, to sign up. Ankara repudiated any such notion, and emphatically showed its real priorities by bombing Kurdish—not Islamic State—targets in southeast Syria.

The U.S. needs an ace in the hole to fill a straight flush. Why not recruit the Hell’s Angels, offering pardons to these potential soldiers of fortune?

See http://news.yahoo.com/netherlands-says-ok-biker-gangs-fight-islamic-state-155136559.html