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British security threatened by Islamists in Africa Apr 4th 2012, 00:34 I would say this has been an obvious threat for some time. there are plenty of radicalised youngsters of Somali background in the UK already. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...reat-thinktank Quote: Jihadists exploiting ungoverned spaces across large stretches of north and east Africa present a potential terrorist threat to the UK and could radicalise "a new subset of British youths", according to a study by a leading defence and security thinktank. Al-Qaida affiliates such as AQ in the Maghreb and al-Shabaab in Somalia, and attempts to influence the terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria, raises a "worrying aspect of an arc of regional instability encompassing the whole Sahara-Sahel strip and extending through to east Africa", says the report published on Wednesday by the Royal United Services Institute... ...The report, Global Jihad Sustained Through Africa, continues: "Most significant is the potential for radicalisation and then mobilisation of a new subset of youth in the UK. This has already taken place over the last 15 years in sections of the Pakistani, north African and even Indian communities; the UK could soon be facing much greater radicalisation among the Somali minority and new radicalisation in some sections of other communities from east and west African countries."

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