News in Brief: Al-Qaeda Member Wistfully Recalls Time When Radicalization Done Face-To-Face Rather Than OnlineBARAMCHA, AFGHANISTANâ€â€Shaking his head at all the new recruitment and indoctrination methods used by his younger counterparts nowadays, al-Qaeda member Khalid Al-Muthanna, 42, wistfully recalled to reporters Monday a time when radicalization was performed face-to-face rather than over the internet. “Back when I first got into jihad, we used to take the time to bring recruits to a real training camp and work with them one-on-one to instill a virulent fanaticism and bloodlust toward the Westâ€â€now, it’s all done on message boards and chat rooms. Where’s the satisfaction in that?†said Al-Muthanna, sighing as he explained that he used to pride himself on spending weeks living in a community before carefully hand-selecting the most psychologically and financially troubled members to radicalize, rather than posting a blanket recruitment message on social media to just anyone. “It’s so rewarding to preach a hateful ideology directly to them ...
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