U.S. and British attentive about probable Terrorist attacks in Europe highlight anxiety that growing numbers of militant are going from the West to distant war zones for training in answer to Al Qaeda's online call for violence.The instant trigger for Sunday's travel alerts was cleverness about a plot against European targets allegedly originating with a group of persons in mountainous northern Pakistan, some of them supposed to be European citizens.Little details of the conspiracy are known. But the plot come into view to be of the kind that Western officials believe poses the most important danger today -- the use of so-called self-radicalized militants with no preceding record of radicalism.Full story
The peak U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan caution Tuesday an American church's threat to be on fire copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.
In the meantime, NATO reported the death of an American service member in an rebellious attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
The commentary from Gen. David Petraeus followed a complaint Monday by hundreds of Afghans over the plans by Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center — a little, evangelical Christian church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy — to burn copies of the Quran on minster grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that aggravated the Afghan war.
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