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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005584print.html

April 02, 2005


"Europe's Boys of Jihad"


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Teenage jihadis. From the LA Times, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:

PARIS — The case file of the French homeboys who joined the Iraqi jihad contains a startling photo.

It's the mug shot of Salah, the alleged point man in Damascus, Syria, who authorities say arranged for guns and safe passage into Iraq for extremists from Paris. Salah has a serious expression beneath a short Afro-style haircut. He looks as if he's posing, reluctantly, for a middle school yearbook.

When Salah left for Damascus with the jihadis last summer, he was 13 years old....


"Iraq is the motor," said a senior French anti-terrorism official, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. "It's making them all go crazy, want to be shaheed [martyrs]. The danger of suicide attacks in Europe and the United States increases as you have younger guys who are fervent and easily manipulated.""


3,115 posted on 04/02/2005 12:20:28 PM PST by Cindy
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PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=348992005

April 2, 2005
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3,117 posted on 04/02/2005 12:24:26 PM PST by Cindy
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