<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4358628.stm> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4358628.stm Europe terror threat 'very high' France's top anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, has warned that the terrorist threat facing Europe remains very high.
In an interview with the BBC, he described Iraq as a black hole. It was sucking up and radicalising young Muslims, who received training there before returning home to carry out jihad, Mr Bruguiere said. Combating Islamist terrorist cells, he says, is becoming harder as they are fragmenting in unpredictable ways. Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere is one of Europe's most experienced anti-terrorism investigators, who has specialised in tracking Islamist groups since the 1980s. New weapons In his interview with the BBC, he warns he is pessimistic about the immediate future - saying the terrorist threat in Europe and the rest of the world remains very high. He says Iraq has helped radicalise some young Muslims and drawn them into violence. "It's quite a black hole sucking up all the elements located in Europe, and pushing them to leave Europe and go to Iraq," Mr Bruguiere said. "Some of them come back to Europe with the need and the intention of committing jihad... in their home country in England, France, Spain, other country in Europe. "Some of them have training for non-conventional weapons such as chemical and biological weapons and that were quite new in 2002, 2003." However, Judge Bruguiere warns that combating the threat has becoming more difficult. He likens today's terrorist cells to a virus which continually mutates - making co-operation on intelligence-gathering more important than ever. Judge Bruguiere says one of the most worrying developments is evidence that some terrorist cells are now acquiring non-conventional weapons, with French intelligence foiling a would-be chemical attack in 2002. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/4358628.stm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
