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Video footage of an alleged German jihadist fighting in Syria, in a wheelchair.Responding to the King’s College report, the EU’s anti-terror chief, Gilles de Kerchove, told the BBC that, “not all of them are radical when they leave, but most likely many of them will be radicalised [and trained] there… And as we've seen, this [training and radicalisation] might lead to a serious threat when they get back”.The combat training that these new foreign militants receive is extensive. Irish Sam worked as a builder with no formal military training before leaving for Libya. “The experience I gained in those battles, you couldn’t buy with money,” he said. “By the time we got to Tripoli, I was a battlefield commando for a reconnaissance team. By the end of the revolution, I must have arrested over 200 loyalists, mercenaries and rapists.”According to the EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, reasons for the increased number of Europeans in Syria are not entirely clear. Some reports indicate that a backlash against European multiculturalism is fuelling the new trend, while others maintain that radical Islamic organisations are to blame. Experts say that Islamist groups like Sharia4UK and Sharia4Netherlands have been radicalising young people and encouraging them to take up arms in Syria.
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