"Flow of terrorist recruits increasing: Westerners attending camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite successful U.S. strikes," by Craig Whitlock for the Washington Post, October 19 (thanks to all who sent this in):
BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a cleanshaven, muscular gunman sporting the alias Abu Ibrahim the American.The gunman did not speak but wore military fatigues and waved his rifle as subtitles identified him as an American. The video contained a stream of threats against Germany if it did not withdraw its troops from the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan. Although the American's part in the film lasted only a few seconds, it has alarmed German and U.S. intelligence officials, who are still puzzling over his background, his real identity and how he became involved with the terrorist group.
U.S. and European counterterrorism officials say a rising number of Western recruits -- including Americans -- are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps. The flow of recruits has continued unabated, officials said, in spite of an intensified campaign over the past year by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in drone missile attacks.
Since January, at least 30 recruits from Germany have traveled to Pakistan for training, according to German security sources. About 10 people -- not necessarily the same individuals -- have returned to Germany this year, fueling concerns that fresh plots are in the works against European targets....
Well dont kow much about this, but i do know that my friend who is the Consul for Pakistan in my city has been having dinner tonight with the woman who is the actual ambassador of Pakistan to Spain.Before this event, last saturday i was talking to this man and joking about what kind of country he has had the bad luck to be Consul to.
But jokes apart, he told me something.He said all those pakistanies that he helps to get legal papers here, he just cant explain himself how can they pay the high prices they must pay for the renting of all those kebbab places.Much more when you realize they are always empty.
How and where do these people get the money from? drugs? arms? The us dollars that america gives them? Cause, man, they coming by the dozens, just keep coming.
Last week, German officials disclosed that a 10-member cell from Hamburg had left for Pakistan earlier this year. The cell is allegedly led by a German of Syrian descent but also includes ethnic Turks, German converts to Islam and one member with Afghan roots.
-from the article
Officials know who these people are, so why is nothing done? Here is a plan of action for all countries:
1. Revoke their citizenship (if they're citizens)
2. Deny them reentry if they try to return home (Are they flying out of Kabul or Islamabad?)
3. Seize their passports
4. Airlift them to Mecca and drop them in front of the Grand Mosque. Let those who benefit from the annual hajj take care of them.
Going to a terrorist training camp should be a one-way trip.
PKM: 4. Airlift them to Mecca and drop them
From about 30,000ft should do the job.
If we know that American and Germans are going to training
bases we must have a good idea where these bases are. Forget
the drones. Send the special ops. boys in . Have them mark the target and then it time to carpet bomb.
Bar the door...change the lock...Don't let them back in...
"...a rising number of Western recruits - including Americans - are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps. The flow of recruits has continued unabated in spite of an intensified campaign by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders..."
How long is it going to take our Military leaders to realize that one cannot fight an ideology, especially one the they haven't identified or studied, with physical force alone and expect to win?
"Flow of terrorist recruits increasing: Westerners attending camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite successful U.S. strikes,"
Well, maybe some more airstrikes. Ten, twenty, two hundred, whatever it takes.
Agreed. By all means let them go; but don't let them back in again.
That should be standard procedure throughout the Lands of the Non-Muslims.