A Dutch filmmaker who received death threats after releasing a movie critical of the treatment of women under Islam was killed Tuesday in Amsterdam. A 26-year-old man with Dutch-Moroccan nationality, suspected of shooting and stabbing filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was arrested Tuesday after a shootout with officers that left him wounded, police said.
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