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| Terror Networks & Islam |
| Jumpin' Jihadis Tots: A Younger and Tougher Variety |
| 2005-10-05 |
| Islamist terrorists are younger and more malleable than ever before, including converts and women, an antiterrorist judge says. "Never has radicalization been as strong," said Jean-Louis Bruguiere, a top French antiterrorist judge, in an interview published Wednesday in France's Le Figaro newspaper. "We're witnessing a change in the cells, with much younger new actors, even minors, who are therefore more malleable." The growing radicalization, Bruguiere added, is directly linked to the turmoil in Iraq. The recruits include a growing number of converts to Islam, the judge told Le Figaro, who are "undeniably tougher" than Muslims by birth. Female converts are particularly interesting targets for Muslim radicals from overseas, looking for ways to get French citizenship through marriage. The judge's remarks come just two days after French police arrested four people in an antiterrorist sweep. Two of those arrested were women. Chemical and biological attacks, using poisons like ricin for example, pose a new threat Bruguiere said. Nor can the chance of a "dirty" nuclear bomb be dismissed out of hand, he said, after the 2002 arrest of Jose Padilla. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #9 It's all about the ideological indoctrination. The Jihad videos, the pamphlets, the Friday sermons at the mosques and the everyday culture in the Mulsim neighborhoods where the Jihadis brow-beat the less radically inclined with conspiracy theories, religious, political, and emotional black-mail (Obey This will continue unhindered as long as tens of millions in the West, out of naivete and political fractiousness, continue to turn a blind eye. In the desperate desire to forget the unpleasantness of conflict, we continue with the absurdities of tolerating intolerance or trying to deflect blame on to more manageable targets like our own political opponents and grievances. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-10-05 22:33 |
| #8 That's why there are more work accidents. The older, more experienced boomers have been boomed or helizapped, so we have the younger set who have not been taught Ohm's law yet. ROPMA. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-10-05 20:50 |
| #7 They have to be younger, we killed off all the older ones. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-10-05 20:41 |
| #6 Snark, pure snark. When the trolls stop by they seem to blitz 6 posts at once, whether they're appropriate or not. |
| Posted by: Ulock Throth5652 2005-10-05 19:45 |
| #5 Snons - I agree with your sentiments 100%, but I think, mebbe, Unatch was being snarky. Unatch? Fess up, is you is or is you ain't a Kool Aid chuggin' Moonbat? :) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-05 18:45 |
| #4 It's all because of Chimpy McBushitler. It's partly because pacifist like you continue the Bush Lies. I'd hate Bush too if I didn't know how you self-hating hippies are a bunch of uneducated liars. It's mainly the terrorist who go out to destroy women and children, they chose their path, and we'll stop them without your help, traitor. |
| Posted by: Snons Phusing8635 2005-10-05 18:42 |
| #3 Stands to reason. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-05 17:45 |
| #2 It's all because of Chimpy McBushitler. |
| Posted by: Unatch Speresh9026 2005-10-05 17:19 |
| #1 This is good news. Would you prefer to fight older, trained Nazis, or young and stupid neo-Nazis? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-10-05 16:38 |