Gijs de Vries

Gijs de Vries was deputy interior minister of the Netherlands between 1998 and 2002. He sat on a convention that drafted the EU's first constitution

Gijs de Vries is known as "Mr. Terrorism" for the EU. He will be in charge of preventing and going after terrorists. He would be the equal to the head of department Homeland Security for the United States.

Gijs de Vries is a virtual unknown in the United States and is the US is taking a wait and see approach to see how he handles terrorism.

Quote:

“It was vital to maintain institutional balance" - 2002 - EU convention

* Denotes Deceased
Dr. Mahmoud Zahar , Mahmoud Abbas , Moqtada al-Sadr , The Great Imam Mahdi , Muammar al-Qaddafi ,* Saddam Hussein , * Ahmed Shah Massoud , Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah , Osama Bin Laden , * Yehiya Ayyash ,* Abu Musab al Zarqawi , Ayman Al-Zawahiri , * Abu Abbas , Hassan Nasrallah , Abdul Qadeer Khan , Muhammad Atef , Ariel Sharon , Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani , Imad Fayez Mugniyah , *Yasser Arafat , Mohammad Khatami , Bashir Assad , Azzam the American , *Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , * Abdel Aziz Rantisi , George W. Bush , Bill Clinton , Michael Chertoff , Hillary Rodham Clinton , John D. Negroponte , Howard Dean , Dick Cheney , Bill Gates , John Kerry , Bill Frist , Donald Rumsfeld , John Edwards , Louis Farrakhan , Matt Drudge , Ralph Nader , Alan Greenspan , Condoleezza Rice , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Gijs de Vries , Jacques Chirac , Vladimir Putin , Rosalinda Celentano , Gerhard Schroder , Prince Charles , Prince William , * Pope John Paul II , Tony Blair , Maitreya , Kim Jong Il , Paul Wolfowitz , Hu Jintao , George H.W. Bush , Michael Schiavo , George J. Felos , Pope Benedict XVI , Viktor Yushchenko , Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Qarni , Karl Rove , David Gergen , Abu Hamza al-Masri , Alex Jones , Cindy Sheehan , Michael Moore , John Roberts , Michael Brown , Harriet Miers , Scott McClellan , Ben Bernanke , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Samuel Alito , Lewis Libby , Stephen Harper , Michael Hayden , Ehud Olmert , Robert Gates , John McCain , Barack Obama

Return to Mabus Files