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Terror threat in Europe 'very high'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 29, 2007
MADRID - The threat of terrorism in Europe remains very high due to anger over the Iraqi war and the growing influence of North African groups linked to al-Qaida, a leading antiterrorism judge warned Thursday. "The actual threat for Europe is high, very high indeed, " Jean-Louis Bruguiere, a top investigator of Islamic terrorism in France, told reporters. "The Iraqi conflict has nurtured the Islamic groups living in Europe, " he said, adding that Iraq also remains a magnet for the recruitment of Islamic extremists. Bruguiere said militants are going to Iraq to train, and then they return to their home countries in Europe to plot attacks. He said that among the leading threats to Europe is an apparent effort by al-Qaida to unite terror trainees in Iraq with the militants in North Africa, especially Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, better known by its French initials GSPC. "It's a new generation and a new strategy" he said. "They have been in Iraq, they have received training and they can come back to Europe to commit attacks." He specifically mentioned France as a target for the GSPC, followed by Spain and Italy.
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