Battleground Europe: The Continent Is a Front Line in the War on Terror, Whether Its People Know It or Not by Timothy Garton Ash

BATTLEGROUND EUROPE: THE CONTINENT IS A FRONT LINE IN THE WAR ON TERROR, WHETHER ITS PEOPLE KNOW IT OR NOT -TIMOTHY GARTON ASH (SEPTEMBER 13, LOS ANGELES TIMES): The larger part of this struggle against terror, and the more important in the longer term, is the battle for the hearts and minds of young European Muslims -- usually men -- who are not yet violent jihadists but could become so. All over the Continent, and around its edges, there are hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men who could be tomorrow's bombers -- or tomorrow's good citizens.
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