I think every country where these Jihadists are coming from has to be worried, not only Great Britain.
The Syrian civil war is breeding a new generation of terrorist
Scotland Yard is right to be worried about British jihadists bringing the war home
By Con Coughlin
8:16PM GMT 03 Dec 2013
As adventures go, it might seem that there are few more worthy causes than fighting for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship in Syria. This, after all, is a government that has waged a merciless campaign against its own citizens, with children regularly tortured to death and whole neighbourhoods razed to the ground by conventional – and occasionally non-conventional – weaponry.
With the death toll now well past 100,000 after nearly three years of bloodshed, it is easy to understand why so many young men and women in the West, incensed by the Assad regimeÂ’s disregard for human life, would want to offer their services to help overthrow this vile regime.
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The Syrian civil war is breeding a new generation of terrorist - Telegraph
The US invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq managed to kill off an older order of terrorist who had, at least in some cases, studied in the west and recognized some of the virtues of democracy and self-determination.
Not so for the generation that's rising now in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These terrorists have been raised on a steady diet of US murder, maiming, displacement, and incarceration, and they want absolutely nothing to do with western "values."
This from 2005:
"The chaos of Iraq is giving rise to a new generation of 'professional' terrorists who will eventually replace al-Qaida as a global threat, according to a CIA thinktank. A report by the National Intelligence Council says the war in Iraq has provided a training and recruitment ground for Islamist militants, much as Afghanistan did for the founding generation of al-Qaida during the war against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
"As new terror organisations emerge on the world stage, al-Qaida will splinter into regional separatist groups, says the report, which forecasts global trends over the next 15 years.
"'Iraq and other possible conflicts in the future could provide recruitment, training grounds, technical skills and language proficiency for a new class of terrorists who are "professionalised" and for whom political violence becomes an end in itself,' the report says.
"It gives warning that veterans of the conflict in Iraq could disperse around the world, exporting their deadly expertise.
"Specifically, the report warns that the US faces an increasing risk of an attack involving biological agents, such as anthrax, and that an emerging and more sophisticated generation of terrorists could also use chemical weapons.
"The bleak forecast undermines one of the Bush administration's central justifications for invading Iraq: that it was necessary to curb terrorism; that the country was a central front in the 'war on terror'; and that the deposed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, had links to al-Qaida's chief, Osama bin Laden.
"Instead, the report describes how hundreds of foreign terrorists entered Iraq after the US invasion, and how the insurgency against American forces was viewed by radical Muslims as a war against a foreign occupier, akin to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Iraq war is breeding a new generation of professional terrorists