Thousands of al Qaeda terrorists are on the loose in US and Europe – under the radar of Western intelligence

When French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said, ”We’ve never faced a challenge on this scale,” he was referring to around 11,000 Islamist terrorists on a constant commute between the Middle East, North America and Europe primed for lethal action. Never has the West seen the likes of a terrorist army on this scale – even when Osama bin Laden was recruiting – as the latest DEBKA Weekly out Friday showed with facts and figures. And never has Western intelligence had less control of a peripatetic mass of homegrown malefactors. 
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