Terror in Europe

You can't be friends with someone who wants to destroy you. You can try, but chances are you'll just make it easier for them to accomplish their goal. The Telegraph is reporting that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may be reaching towards a new front in his war against the West-Europe.

A wave of arrests across Europe has thrown new light on a European terrorist network being developed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most prominent insurgent in Iraq.

A growing number of terrorism investigations in Britain, Germany, Bosnia, Denmark and most recently Spain and France are linked to the man who has masterminded countless suicide bombings in Iraq, personally beheaded hostages and bombed three hotels in his native Jordan.

Some of the suspected networks appear to be involved only in supporting his operations in Iraq. But counter-terrorism officials are worried that Zarqawi could be planning to use his base in Iraq to start attacking Europe.

The article goes on to discuss the fact that Zarqawi already had a European infrastructure in place prior to the war in Iraq, and that some noise indicates that he may be trying to recruit white radicals for terror operations, individuals who would be harder for anti-terror agencies to detect.

Europe may start to feel the consequences of its appeasement of radical Islam. It has been easy for European nations to climb up into their ivory towers and preach down at America and its allies, but by doing so they have made themselves look weak and vacillating. And predators tend to go after the weak first.