(Reuters) Wendel Broere - Dutch prosecutors accused 12 young Muslim men on Monday of threatening to kill prominent politicians critical of Islam and said their arrest after the murder of film director Theo van Gogh had foiled other attacks. The men, mostly of Moroccan descent, are suspected of belonging to a militant Muslim network dubbed the "Hofstad" group. "The group plotted some very serious crimes including murder, possession of arms, issuing threats and causing explosions, all following extremist convictions," public prosecutor Koos Plooy told a pre-trial hearing in Rotterdam. Investigators found a letter on the computers of several suspects saying, "The blood of our Muslim brothers will be avenged by the blood of the Dutch people."
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