The New Face of Terror

Boy, if you read one article today, make this one it, even though it will scare you to death.

All the arguments about al Queda flattening out, or worse becoming less a hierarchical organization and more a movement seem to be panning out. And this article describes the sources of terrorists in Europe today.

Not good. I mean really, really not good.

And you might want to argue that Iraq is providing motivation, but there seems to be little evidence so far that either Iraq or Chechnya is providing a class of hardened, battle trained, experienced terrorists. It's young men who are educated enough (as per the profile: with technically oriented educations, many from engineering-related fields) to read the various easily available manuals out on CD and DVD and figure out on their own how to build bombs and other explosive devices -- or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, uneducated enough, to be manipulable, the perfect class of patsies, ala Richard Reid.

The al Queda handbook and all their training manuals have been lovingly downloaded for just such a moment, my friends. (Link here, since I'm assuming the DOJ would have scrubbed this before putting it up so this particular link is safe to pass on.)