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| British security services claim 4,000 trained by al-Qa'ida |
| 2002-07-13 |
| No less than 4,000 Britons have received training at al-Qa'ida camps in the past 10 years, security sources say. Far greater numbers of British Muslims volunteered to fight for Osama bin Laden's organisation and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan than was previously known, and the vast majority of them are back in this country. Many of those returning from Afghanistan have been traced, but others have disappeared. The security sources stress that most of the former volunteers are not seen as threats. "Those boys aren't threats. They're just cattle, following the herd..." But some are believed to have retained their terrorist loyalties. Oooh. It's a statement of the obvious... The recruitment of Muslims happened at mosques around the country. The training took place mainly at camps in Afghanistan, and many of the British Muslims fought in the Taliban ranks against the Northern Alliance. Other recruits are believed also to have seen action in Bosnia and Chechnya. Ummm... Does anyone propose do actually do anything about it? Or are we simply observing a natural phenomenon, like an earthquake? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |