Al Qaida recruiting Euro youth for Iraq, officials fear (Religion of Peace Alert)

WorldTribune.com ^ | November 28, 2003 | WorldTribune.com

[Jacob Kell]

LONDON — European intelligence and security agencies are concerned that Al Qaida has been recruiting Western youth to fight against the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

European officials said security agencies in countries such as Britain, France and Germany have detected signals of Al Qaida recruitment of volunteers to fight the U.S. military in Iraq. The officials said the recruitment effort targets both young Muslims as well as those as those who oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq.

"There is a sort of daily understanding of the evolution of a movement that is extremely complicated and difficult to understand," said Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France's leading counter-insurgency judge.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruguiere told France's France-Inter Radio that security services were watching for the flow of Europeans to Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported. But he said authorities have been struggling to keeptrack of Al Qaida recruiters. Denmark and France were said to be particularly vulnerable to Al Qaida recruitment, officials said. Anti-U.S. sentiment has been high and there are an estimated 100,000 French converts to Islam, some of whom were believed to have been targeted by Islamic insurgents.

"What we see now is that Iraq seems to attract people with terror activities, also from Europe," Lars Findsen, director of the Danish Security Intelligence Service, who appeared at a recent counter-insurgency conference near Copenhagen, said. So far, information on the Al Qaida recruitment has been sketchy, officials said. But they said Iraq could become the magnet for Western young people and a focus for Islamic discontent.

"It's incontestable that Iraq has become a factor of crisis, like other zones," Bruguiere said. "In the long term, an Islamic movement that may try to head to a land where there are clashes between Muslims and non-Muslims."

[jimbo123]

Bush's "Flypaper" strategy is working.

[nuconvert]

"Iraq seems to attract people with terror activities..."

Well, that makes sense. That's where the action is now, if you're a terrorist.
Al qaeda is getting desperate.

[Uncle Miltie]

"authorities have been struggling to keep track of Al Qaida recruiters."

Shoot them. Tracking problem solved.

We used to shoot pirates on sight, as people outside the law. Terrorist are exactly the same.

[river rat]

What if?

What if we opened an undercover operation in Europe - that openly advertised to recruit and train Jihadists that wanted to earn their virgins by killing Americans or Jews or just anyone that doesn't meet their liking....

Once the willing Jihadist signs the forms and shows up to get his transportation to his training camp ---- arrest him, try them and execute them "before the fact".....

Where is it written that illegal combatants are entitled to any more consideration than that?

Semper Fi

[KellyAdmirer]

Thinning the terrorist herd. Go ahead, Euroscum, go put your life on the line where your anti-American mouths are, our troops are waiting for you.

[Savage Beast]

The Riviera's not going to be much fun in burqas. As for the French wine industry--you've heard of the Iranian wine industry?

By the way, will the Muslims put burqas on the Venus de Milo and the Victory of Samothrace, or will they just blow them up?

[Cicero]

Blow them up, especially if they figure out that they are pagan gods.

[Uncle Miltie]

Elegant.

[Savage Beast]

Do you suppose the Muslims will blow up Leonardo's Last Supper and Michelangelo's Pieta when they take over Europe?