ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The trial of an Arab who works for the Netherlands' secret service has heard security leaks helped in the assassination of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.
Outman Ben Amar, an employee of the Dutch secret intelligence agency known as AIVD, is accused of passing a copy of a monitored conversation to a group associated with a Dutch Moroccan who is the chief suspect in Van Gogh's slaying.
The 34-year-old Moroccan-born translator was arrested Sept. 30 and charged with disclosing secrets to third parties, The Independent reported Tuesday.
Prosecutor Annemieke Zwaneveld said Ben Amar was also suspected of passing a list of AIVD investigations to a group in the city of Utrecht whose members were arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives.
Van Gogh, a descendant of the 19th century painter, was shot and stabbed in Amsterdam in November. He was apparently marked for death for a film in which he criticized the treatment of women in Muslim society.
