Warning: Iraq war boosts terror threat (EU's counter-terror chief)

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http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050913-031656-5383r

Warning: Iraq war boosts terror threat

HERZLIYA, Israel -- The Iraq war has made the Islamist terror threat to Europe far more acute, the EU's counter-terror chief says.

"The threat of terrorism has not abated. On the contrary: the terrorist threat has become more complex -- notably, though not exclusively, as a result of the war in Iraq," Gijs de Vries, the European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator said in a speech he delivered Monday to the Institute for Counter-Terrorism's annual conference.

"Intelligence agencies have warned that the war in Iraq has stimulated processes of radicalization and recruitment into terrorism in and beyond Iraq itself," de Vries told the Herzliya conference.

"The images of strife and bloodshed, and the images of Abu Ghraib, repeated over and over again on Arab television stations, have fueled anger, resentment and militancy in Muslim communities in Europe and elsewhere in the world," the European counter-terrorism coordinator said

[Kikosexy2]

1. And we're..

supposed to be surprised? Who didn't see this coming?

[krkaufman]

2. A Masters degree graduate from the University of....

... the Bleeding Obvious.