Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Germany's Growing Islamist Movement

Map: Pakistan's tribal areas. DER SPIEGEL

German Jihad. Homegrown Terror Takes on New Dimensions -- Spiegel Online

Osama bin Laden may be dead, but al-Qaida is alive and well in Germany. Each month, an average of five Islamists leave the country for terrorist training camps in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. Recent arrests in Düsseldorf show just how dangerous homegrown terror has become.

It isn't easy being a militant Islamist, as Abdeladim el-K. and Jamil S. learned on a Tuesday two weeks ago. The two men were sitting in a two-room apartment on Witzelstrasse in the German city of Düsseldorf, complaining to each other about how complicated it is to build a functioning bomb. "Bomb is not so difficult as detonator," said Abdeladim el-K., "because detonator more dangerous than bomb."

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My Comment: Knowing that an average of five Islamists leave Germany for terrorist training camps in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area .... that tells me that you have a problem, especially when these terrorists come back home.

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