Al Qaeda Looking for Blond, Blue-Eyed Recruits


CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden speaks to Tim Russert during Meet the Press, March 30.
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April 3, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com



Al Qaeda wants Western-looking terrorist recruits in order to more effectively infiltrate Western nations.

Al Qaeda is establishing a network of training camps throughout western Pakistan for the express purpose of training people of white, European origin as terrorist operatives. Such Western-looking operatives would be able to more easily infiltrate the United States or Europe in order to conduct a terrorist strike.

In an interview televised by nbc News on March 30, cia Director Gen. Michael Hayden said:

It’s very clear to us that al Qaeda has been able, over the past 18 months or so, to establish a safe haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area that they have not enjoyed before, that they are bringing operatives into that region for training—operatives that, a phrase I would use, wouldn’t attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles [the Washington airport] with you when you’re coming back from overseas.

A U.S. intelligence report, released in February, noted the influx of Western recruits into al Qaeda safe havens in the federally administered tribal areas of western Pakistan since 2006.

“Al Qaeda is improving the last key aspect of its ability to attack the U.S.—the identification, training and positioning of operatives for an attack in the homeland,â€