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I found this on the news this morning. At least someone is thinking like I am about prisoners of extremists.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100826/...r-dba1618.html
I found this on the news this morning. At least someone is thinking like I am about prisoners of extremists.
The radicalisation of Muslims in British prisons could produce hundreds of home-grown terrorists as the UK faces threats from lone bombers and assassins sent out to try their luck, according to experts. Skip related content
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Large-scale co-ordinated attacks are being replaced by highly-motivated but poorly trained individuals operating with the expectation that eventually one will succeed, a report in the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) journal found.
The UK has more to fear than any other western country from home-grown terrorists and the conditions are all there for a series of attacks to begin at any time, the report for the defence and security think-tank said.
Its authors, Rusi director Michael Clarke and research fellow Valentina Soria, said estimates showed one in ten of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high-security institutions in England and Wales were "successfully targeted" by radical jihadists.
"Perhaps some 800 potentially violent radicals, not previously guilty of terrorism charges, will be back in society over the coming five to ten years," they wrote.
Coupled with a foreign policy that "serves to focus alienation and resentment", the phenomenon of home-grown terrorism in the UK is growing, they said.
"The natural reaction to improved counter-terrorist operations is for jihadist attacks to evolve towards more individual efforts."
They added that "a powerful al-Qaeda media campaign" would make them "appear as dramatic and threatening as earlier attacks".
"If lone bombers and assassins are being sent out to try their luck... the key variable will be the effect these lone or spontaneous attempts have on the motivation of others to join the jihad," they said.
"Lone killers will always exist and some of them will succeed. The key question is whether their acts remain that of individuals or become part of a structural phenomenon."
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Terror risk 'from targeted inmates'
Related Hot Topic: Anti-Terrorism
Have your say: Anti-Terrorism
Large-scale co-ordinated attacks are being replaced by highly-motivated but poorly trained individuals operating with the expectation that eventually one will succeed, a report in the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) journal found.
The UK has more to fear than any other western country from home-grown terrorists and the conditions are all there for a series of attacks to begin at any time, the report for the defence and security think-tank said.
Its authors, Rusi director Michael Clarke and research fellow Valentina Soria, said estimates showed one in ten of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high-security institutions in England and Wales were "successfully targeted" by radical jihadists.
"Perhaps some 800 potentially violent radicals, not previously guilty of terrorism charges, will be back in society over the coming five to ten years," they wrote.
Coupled with a foreign policy that "serves to focus alienation and resentment", the phenomenon of home-grown terrorism in the UK is growing, they said.
"The natural reaction to improved counter-terrorist operations is for jihadist attacks to evolve towards more individual efforts."
They added that "a powerful al-Qaeda media campaign" would make them "appear as dramatic and threatening as earlier attacks".
"If lone bombers and assassins are being sent out to try their luck... the key variable will be the effect these lone or spontaneous attempts have on the motivation of others to join the jihad," they said.
"Lone killers will always exist and some of them will succeed. The key question is whether their acts remain that of individuals or become part of a structural phenomenon."
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