From small French town to Syria: the journey of a Western jihadi

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - An online profile of one of the men in a video posted by Islamic State after mass shootings and suicide bombings in Paris shows how hard it is to predict where the next threat will emerge. Unlike the sons of Muslim immigrants wanting to reconnect with their identities, the blue-eyed man, who spoke from an undisclosed location in the online profile, said his family came from a small town in France. The profile of Abu Salman, the Frenchman's nom de guerre, is one of many slick videos aiming to recruit Westerners to Islamic State by trying to show that Western society's secularism fails to inspire young men like him.




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