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Flow of terrorist recruits increasing
Washington Post ^ | October 19, 2009 | Craig Whitlock

Posted on 10/19/2009 6:40:29 AM PDT by La Lydia

BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a cleanshaven, muscular gunman sporting the alias Abu Ibrahim the American. The gunman did not speak but wore military fatigues and waved his rifle as subtitles identified him as an American. The video contained a stream of threats against Germany if it did not withdraw its troops from the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan...

U.S. and European counterterrorism officials say a rising number of Western recruits -- including Americans -- are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps. The flow of recruits has continued unabated, officials said, in spite of an intensified campaign over the past year by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in drone missile attacks.

Since January, at least 30 recruits from Germany have traveled to Pakistan for training, according to German security sources. About 10 people -- not necessarily the same individuals -- have returned to Germany this year, fueling concerns that fresh plots are in the works against European targets...

German security services have been on high alert since last month, when groups affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda issued several videos warning that an attack on German targets was imminent if the government did not bring home its forces from Afghanistan.

There are about 3,800 German troops in the country, the third-largest NATO contingent after those of the United States and Britain. German officials say Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders are trying to exploit domestic opposition in Germany to the war...

The videos all featured German speakers who urged Muslims to travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan to join their cause...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; abuibrahim; crushislam; islam; islamicfascism; islamicterrorism; obamasfault; terror; theamerican; violence
Hopey-changey's unclenched fist not working out the way he expected. The rule should be: you go to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, you can never return to the U.S.
1 posted on 10/19/2009 6:40:30 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

Of course the Obomination will continue to believe that making friends with terrorists will keep the U.S. safe while we piss off our allies. Obama is a TERRORIST. Obama is also a LIAR. I offer NO APOLOGY for that FACT.


2 posted on 10/19/2009 6:42:35 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: La Lydia

but but but...this only happens under Bush


3 posted on 10/19/2009 6:43:12 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: nmh
Obama is a TERRORIST. Obama is also a LIAR.

Obama bin Biden or Sodom Hussein Obama... both names describe him perfectly...

4 posted on 10/19/2009 6:45:45 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: La Lydia

Hey obama, hows that strong horse/weak horse thing working
out for you?


5 posted on 10/19/2009 6:45:51 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: La Lydia

And this after our Nobel peace prize winning kiss their hiney diplomacy....??


6 posted on 10/19/2009 6:47:12 AM PDT by politicalmerc (Washington DC Tea Party? What Tea Party? Who are all these people Michelle....?)
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To: tet68

It’s not Zer0’s fault though! It’s not. Must be because of Bush!

End of sarcasm.


7 posted on 10/19/2009 6:55:38 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Doogle

Yeah, I’m gonna need some help here justifying “Bush’s fault” on this...

anyone “speak leftie”?


8 posted on 10/19/2009 6:57:04 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: La Lydia

bump


9 posted on 10/19/2009 6:59:40 AM PDT by VOA
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To: La Lydia

This would seem to open up some obvious avenues for infiltration.


10 posted on 10/19/2009 7:04:17 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Doogle; MrB

“but but but...this only happens under Bush”

Oh, it’s still Dubya’s fault all right...well at least to Democrats,
Leftists, Socialist, and Obama-istas.

Because Dubya is the guy who wrecked the world economy, thus FORCING
these guys to get a job with the radical Islamists.

(/SARC)

While an entirely separate issue, I do feel that Dubya did have a
“slow-down” in his last couple of years in The White House.
But who can blame a guy that saved The West despite the onslaught
of the combined forces of the Democrats, the MSM and every weenie
in Europe and around the world...
that hated him for understanding the post 9-11 and having the
intestinal fortitude to do the right thing.

No good deed goes unpunished.


11 posted on 10/19/2009 7:05:22 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
While an entirely separate issue, I do feel that Dubya did have a “slow-down” in his last couple of years in The White House.

yeah, those last few years, yeah but then again. the rats took over Congress in 2006...oh wait....how coincidental

12 posted on 10/19/2009 7:09:32 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: La Lydia
Well, at least Obama gives the TERRORISTS hope!
13 posted on 10/19/2009 7:15:54 AM PDT by ryan71 (Smells like a revolution)
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To: La Lydia

How could this be?

After the Cairo “Ich bin ein Muslimer” speech?


14 posted on 10/19/2009 7:17:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: La Lydia

THREAD BUMP.


15 posted on 10/19/2009 4:12:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

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16 posted on 10/19/2009 5:03:57 PM PDT by Cindy
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