Europe: Terror groups recruit young North Africans

International Herald Tribune ^ | September 6 2002 | Thomas Fuller

[knighthawk]

Investigators talk of a 'new generation' who adopted radical views in Europe

BRUSSELS After 12 months of intensive investigations into terrorist networks in Europe, the police are increasingly focusing on the North African diaspora as a recruitment pool for terrorist groups.

Young men from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria have been involved in a series of incidents in the last year, among them alleged plots to attack the U.S. embassies in Paris and Rome and the deadly bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April.

That members of the North African diaspora are involved in terrorism in Europe is nothing new. Militant groups fighting the Algerian government were behind dozens of bombings in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in France.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[MattinNJ]

Simple. Hold hands and sing Kumbaya or get them before they get us. And they are coming to get us.

[marron]

Knowing this, why would anyone allow anyone from north Africa into their country? Mainly, males between the ages of 15 and 50?

[knighthawk]

They are already in most European countries. Moroccans in the Netherlands and Belgium, Tunesians and Algerians in France and Belgium. Denmark, Germany, Sweden.