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“The Newest Trends in Terror”
By Peter Brookes
New York Post | Friday, June 06, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Experts believe Internet radicalization is replacing in-person radicalization in terror camps, tea houses or mosques. The Web lets al Qaeda & Co. build ties with the sympathetic, radicalize those on the margins - and offer training and expertise to the converted. All without a trip to a terror camp - a “virtual safe haven.”
Which leads to the next worry: Homegrown terrorists.
Al Qaeda has long sought to recruit operatives already in-place in the West - foot soldiers who don’t need passports or transportation to slaughter innocents here.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20108&Itemid=128
Press Release A080605a-060
June 5, 2008
Coalition forces round up Special Groups criminals around Iraq
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured an alleged Special Groups leader, and the suspected primary Special Groups weapons smuggler and financier for Al Kut in operations south of Baghdad Thursday.
Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces conducted a raid on the residence of a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups leader in al-Mahawil, which lies about 70 km south of Baghdad near Hillah.
Coalition forces entered the suspected outlaw’s residence where he surrendered without incident.
In a separate operation near Al Kut, intelligence tips helped Coalition forces track down the hideout of a suspected Special Groups criminal, who sources allege is the primary weapons smuggler and financier for Special Groups elements in that area.
Coalition forces stormed the suspected criminal’s location, about 30 km east of Al Kut, where he and another suspected criminal surrendered.
“As Special Groups leaders and their criminal associates flee their normal area of operations, Iraqi and Coalition Security Forces will continue to track and disrupt their activities,” said U.S. Army Capt. Charles Calio, MNF-I spokesperson. “We will continue to deny these criminals refuge in any part of Iraq.”
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