Denmark: The difficulties of terrorist profiling

I originally did not notice anything news worthy about this article, but as Uriasposten points out - a terrorist can be a young man, he can be middle aged, he can be a woman, but he usually does share one characteristic. As a previous article said on this subject: jihadi terrorists are "an accurate reflection of the overall Muslim immigrant population in Europe."

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A typical terrorist in Europe is a young man, but he can also be middle-aged, or a woman. So said Lars Erslev Andersen of Syddansk University when the prosecutor in the case against 19 year old EH asked the country's leading terroism researcher to define the common characteristics of terrorists.

"Profiling is very difficult," he said in court.

He was called in to testify in the Glostrup case, in which EH was originally acquitted - to explain the concept of radicalizing that the European intelligence services have focused on, not least since the bomb attacks in London in July 2005.

The researcher said that it causes a lot of concern that the perpetrators have grown from their own society.

Source: Berlingske Tidende (Danish)

See also: Patterns of terrorists shifting

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