Anatomy of a Busted Cell

Europe's current jihad generation has at least one advantage over its radical predecessors: new trainees don't need to leave home to learn the terror trade. That means recruits to extremist movements, like the suspected July London bombers, rarely show up in intelligence data banks. This latest mutation in terror tactics is in part a response to the ability of European governments to get an early fix on militants trained abroad. On the basis of an exclusive briefing with French counterterrorism officials, Time was able to reconstruct how one French militant group trained in the Caucasus was broken up. Here's how...

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