German Lesson: Islamist Enclaves Breed Jihadism
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
December 23, 2016
Islamist enclaves in European cities are a bigger problem than the infiltration of trained jihadists from the Middle East.
German investigators have named a Tunisian refugee, Anis Amri, as the jihadist whom they suspect carried out Tuesday's mass-murder attack. Amri is believed to be the man who drove a truck through a Christmas festival in Berlin, killing twelve and wounding four dozen others in an atrocity reminiscent of the attack in July, when 86 people were killed at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice.
Notwithstanding that they arrested and held the wrong man for several hours, it turns out that German authorities have been well aware that Amri posed a danger. He is yet another of what my friend the terrorism analyst Patrick Poole has dubbed "known wolves" - Islamic terrorists who were already spotlighted by counterterrorism investigators as likely to strike.
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