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| Terrorist recruiting on the rise in France |
| 2006-06-06 |
| Islamic terrorists operating in France are more agile at plotting attacks, better educated and more ideologically grounded than a decade ago — and their numbers are growing despite advances in methods to track radicals, according to former and current intelligence officials. French security services have thwarted several attacks and rounded up hundreds of suspects since deadly bombings in the mid-1990s by Algerian extremists that jolted the nation. While the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks heightened global awareness of the threat, France was already on alert — and has not suffered a major attack in a decade. In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, French intelligence officials described changes in how terror cells finance and plan attacks, and how they recruit and train. Terrorist funding is coming from ingenious and often small-scale sources: money laundered through halal butcher shops, cannabis dealing, ATM scams. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Nothing short of a Hiroshima hit on a hotbed will stop this. it worked on the last suicide-oriented bunch. I'm afraid that nothig short will stop this. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-06 21:54 |
| #1 So, how long before France goes hot? When it does, my money is on the French. They can be vicious bastards, God bless them. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2006-06-06 17:45 |