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May 23, 2009
Al-Qaeda recruit: "What you see in videos on the Net, we realized that was a lie"
Topics: War on TerrorThe former recruit went on to tell police that he was told by "his chief" that "the videos . . . served to impress the enemy and incite people to come fight, and he knew this was a scam and propaganda."
Disenchantment aside, the accounts of four of the returning militants arrested in Europe combine with intercepts to paint a detailed picture of Al Qaeda's secret compounds. They also reinforce intelligence that a campaign of U.S. Predator drone airstrikes has sown suspicion and disarray and stoked tension with tribes in northwestern Pakistan, anti-terrorism officials say.Nontheless, despite the effects of the Predator airstrikes and returning "militants" saying their training experience in Pakistan wasn't what they hoped for: Al Qaeda recruits back in Europe, but why?
Posted by Abdul at May 23, 2009 10:27 AM
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