EU warns of a chilling new terror menace 25 years after 9/11 as online youths seek violent thrills
- BRUSSELS -- A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried.
- The exact size of the network behind what is being called nihilistic violent extremism is unclear.
- But police investigators from nine European countries found about 4,340 URL web addresses linked to “The COM,” as the online community has become known, during a campaign to disrupt it in June and July.
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- BRUSSELS -- A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and the authorities are worried.
- The exact size of the network behind what is being called nihilistic violent extremism is unclear.
- But police investigators from nine European countries found about 4,340 URL web addresses linked to “The COM,” as the online community has become known, during a campaign to disrupt it in June and July.
Sources: ABC News