Let's face it -- if the U.S. authorities knew what the crackpot leader of ISIS was capable of becoming, they probably would have locked him up and thrown away the key. Let us not forget, though, that many of these terrorists are recruited through Mosques. Some of the clergy are just as extremist as the rest of the terrorists and are busy recruiting others throughout the Muslim world to join ISIS. They certainly have convinced many to leave their countries and join up.
Madrid mosque was used to recruit combatants for Syria and Iraq
Moroccan ringleader spent four years in Guantánamo before acquittal by a Spanish court
FERNANDO J. PÉREZ Madrid
12 DIC 2014 - 14:57 CET
Lahcen Ikassrien was arrested in June as part of a raid against Islamic radicals. / ÁLVARO GARCÍA (EL PAÍS)
Madrid’s largest mosque was functioning as a Jihadist recruitment center led by a former Guantánamo prisoner, it has emerged.
Lahcen Ikassrien, 47, a Moroccan national who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and released after nearly four years in Guantánamo, was using the cafeteria at the Mezquita de la M-30 (named after the adjacent ring road) to recruit and indoctrinate new combatants for the fronts in Iraq and Syria, according to a High Court investigation.
Ikassrien is one of several people who were
arrested in June in a raidagainst an international network that recruited jihadists for the terrorist organization Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which
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