Frattini mulls EU’s 'homegrown terrorists'

European Union commissioner Franco Frattini speaks to the issue of “homegrown terrorist” in Europe, confirming the threat

Renata Goldirova with the Observer reported Thursday, Jan. 17, on European Union commissioner Franco Frattini’s comments - European homegrown terrorism is a confirmed threat.

Frattini has said he shares concerns recently expressed in Washington that Europe could become a platform for terrorist threats against the United States.

"We are in a war situation - as in the United States," Mr Frattini told the BBC on Wednesday, referring to the phenomenon of home-grown terrorism in Europe.

"Day after day, we discover cells of terrorists," he said, adding 50 terror attacks were foiled in the EU bloc last year, but the terrorist profile is changing.

The would-be attackers appear to increasingly have been born in the union's territory, be well educated, well integrated, but still willing to become suicide bombers.

Washington is understandably concerned, the Italian commissioner concluded.

Mr Frattini's comments were in response to remarks by US homeland security chief Michael Chertoff on Islamic extremists in Europe.

"The terrorists are increasingly looking to Europe as both a target and a platform for terrorist attacks," he told the BBC's World News America on Tuesday. 

Former Islamist, Dr. Irgun Caner, said at a Christian Action Network event in February 2007 Islamic tradition stood against citizens of a country engaging in jihad against their country.

Caner added jihad groups seemed to find ways around that restrictive interpretation.

It appears to continue to be a preference among many jihad islamists – it is good for nations to be concerned cooperatively about the training of jihad terrorists in any foreign country.

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