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Comments on the potential jihadist threat to the US emanating from Europe. Discussion begins by noting national differences among European Muslims, highlighting the fact that there are more jihadists in the UK than in all the rest of Europe, representing, it is asserted, the most serious domestic security threat & the chief terrorist threat to the US. The irony seen here is that jihadists proliferate in those countries where Muslims in general feel most comfortable, ie, where the most effort has been put forth to accommodate the mores & structures of Muslim countries of origin. Adapted from the source document.

[...] ours is a brave new world where 'the ineluctable dissemination of technological and scientific discoveries' may soon make nuclear and biological weapons available to insurgents, terrorists, anarchists and doomsday cults. If U.S. intelligence found that a scientifically advanced nation-'for example, China'-had achieved a breakthrough bridging computer-based artificial intelligence with brain science, we would face a superhuman intellect that 'would revolutionize all prior considerations about national security.'.

Robert S. Leiken is director of the Immigration and National Security Program at the Nixon Center and author of Bearers of Global Jihad?Immigration and National Security after 11 September.