New wave of British terrorists are taught at schools, not in the mountains

[Turbineguy]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1693405,00.html
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This new generation of training centres are nothing like their predecessors which were run by al-Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks on the US and were sited in the inhospitable mountain ranges straddling the Afghan border.

Western volunteers lived rough in the desert with hundreds of other foreign recruits and were taught to handle weapons and explosives, as well as spending hours listening to tape recordings of Osama bin Laden and other zealots.

“Today the camps are more like youth hostels,” one young activist who attended a madrassa in southern Pakistan told The Times.

“Recruits don’t spend hours scrabbling about on outward bound courses. It is more like being in a school room.”

“Organisers don’t want to turn out warriors who can strip down a Kalashnikov rifle blindfolded. They want to shape the mind, not the body.

“They want their recruits to embrace the idea of giving their lives for their cause, and doing nothing more technical than triggering the bomb they carry.”
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What does this last part mean? In the beginning the recruits were not so plentiful they could be wasted by simply blowing themselves up. Now they can. Unless this changes, Westerners can expect that suicide bombers will become as much a fact of life in Europe and America as in Israel.

[Throckmorton]

1. Yes, a recipe for War Without End

I bomb your train, you bomb our village, so I bomb your Hospital, so you bomb our Power Station, on and on and on.

Thank you George, the light of the "Free World".

[Totally Committed]

2. Frightening!

And, the internet is now their most effective recruiting tool.

TC

[Gregorian]

3. Who's bad.

It just matters where you live, whether it's the terrorists, or us "good guys". Because so far those horrible terrorists (who's issues still have never been heard, and may well be valid) have killed around 4000 people. And the supposed good guy, victims, have killed well over 100,000 people.
I have to question how good these people are who have killed over 100,000. That's a lot of death. That does not include injured. That's far far worse than anything the so-called terrorists ever dreamed.

[varun]

4. Madrassahs in Pakistan

“Today the camps are more like youth hostels,” one young activist who attended a madrassa in southern Pakistan told The Times.

So why is Pakistan a major ally in WOT?