Terror threats / Prisons

Experts say that after the terror attacks in Paris, there is a need to monitor not only mosques known for extremist views, but also prisons.

Homeland Security News Wire is quoting experts that call prisons “Universities for terror”.

According to NBC News, would-be American Airlines “shoe bomber” Richard Reid converted to Islam while in Britain’s Felthham young offenders’ institution. Muktar Ibrahim, who attempted a second London transit attack in 2005, became radicalized in the same facility.

Spanish drug dealer Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras and Moroccan petty criminal Jamal Ahmidan were among those recruited by an al Qaeda-linked cell while serving sentences in Spain’s Topas prison, later becoming co-conspirators in the 2004 Madrid train bombing.

Prisons– “greenhouses” for terrorists