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French security officials arrested three Chechen Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qaeda this spring. The three were believed to be "days away" from carrying out attacks in France, Spain, and elsewhere in Europe, prosecutor François Molins said. He called it a "worrying trend."
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In April 2013, three people died and more than two hundred and sixty were injured in the Boston Marathon terror attack. At the same time in the UK, eleven men were sentenced for their roles in a large al-Qaeda-approved suicide plot in Birmingham to explode eight bombs concealed in backpacks, while members of another terror group were sentenced for a series of terrorism offenses, including potential attacks against British troops. A month later, a British soldier was indeed murdered on the streets of London by two radicalized men yelling, "Allahu akbar." These events are only the latest that show the US and the UK face very similar ideological challenges from terrorism. Yet the backgrounds of the individuals posing this challenge differ greatly, as two recent studies we have conducted show. One study, published earlier this year, covered all those convicted of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism in US civilian and military courts and those who committed suicide attacks on US soil over a fifteen-year period. A similar study we published in 2011 covered Islamism-related offenses in the UK between 1998 and 2010.
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