No…these are MUSLIM terror networks on the rise in Europe…
Bruce European Terror Networks on Rise NewsMax.com July 10, 2005 England is not the only European nation harboring terrorists - the terror network is growing throughout the continent, according to a new report issued just before the horrific July 7 bombings in London. "European counterterrorism officials stress that there is a new, more dangerous generation of Islamic extremists, younger and more radical than their forbears," states the report from the Transnational Threats Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. After the London bombings a group calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe claimed responsibility, and also threatened attacks in Italy and Denmark. A series of arrests of suspected terrorists in Spain, Germany, France and the Netherlands attests to the presence of a terrorist network in Europe that recruits suicide bombers and fighters for the war in Iraq, the new report reveals. In June, Spanish authorities broke up a network that recruited radical Islamists to fight in Iraq, arresting 16 people - 11 of them suspected of having ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist network. And recent terrorist activity in Iraq shows that a growing number of suicide bombers are coming from Europe compared to those from North Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Several terrorist networks in Europe are linked to groups in North Africa that provide training for volunteers. In Europe there is a rise "in both the number of recruits and the number of people returning home to develop networks and patiently plan for attacks," according to Magnus Norell of the Swedish defense research agency. The new European terrorists are for the most part not directly connected with al-Qaida or other established terrorist groups. Because the networks they form have no terrorist history, law enforcement agencies may not know they exist. This had made tracking European networks increasingly difficult. According to the new report, the typical European jihadi recruited to Iraq is a well-educated man in his mid-20s, from a stable middle-class family, with no strict religious education. "He is usually a young, alienated male immigrant from North Africa or the Middle East who becomes a ‘newborn Muslim' and searches for radical Islamists." _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
