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Chasing ISIS
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Chasing ISIS

Why Europe Can't Find the Jihadis in Its Midst

Mitch Prothero
Buzzfeed, 2016
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In this 6,600-word BuzzFeed News report, veteran Middle East reporter Mitchell Prothero reveals the obstacles EU officials face in fighting some 10,000 potential terrorists, either homegrown or sent from ISIS battlefields. He interviews anonymous – mostly French and Belgian – intelligence officials, thus depending on unattributed sources, but he knows his stuff. getAbstract urges those interested in how the EU fights terrorism to heed Prothero’s urgent concern about its lack of a central antiterrorism force. With the ISIS threat, he says, Europe must fight differently.

Take-Aways

  • Old unresolved divisions within the EU undermine a concerted, centralized effort to identify and apprehend terrorists or potential terrorists.
  • Many challenges face EU authorities combating terrorism: unwillingness to share intelligence, lack of a central command, internal “bureaucratic chaos” and open borders.
  • Many jihadi terrorists are converted petty criminals – not ideologues.

About the Author

Longtime Middle East reporter Mitchell Prothero is a former McClatchy Iraq bureau chief. He is BuzzFeed News’s 2016-2017 Michael Hastings national security fellow.

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