Germany Expects Terror Threats In Near Future

With over 400 German Islamists who have made the trek to Syria and Iraq-20 of them ex-soldiers- Germany predicts returning jihadists will, at some point, commit acts of terrorism.

Unlike Britain, Germany hasn’t raised its national threat level for terrorism recently. But Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that there was an “increased abstract threat” of attacks in Germany.

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“We have to assume ... that there may well be people who return and commit attacks,” he said, adding that his agency is aware of at least 25 jihadists with combat experience who have already come back to Germany.

Maassen said that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group, which has swept into northern Iraq from Syria in recent months, has huge appeal among Muslim extremists.

“(They are) far more attractive than Jabhat al-Nursa, the al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria. What attracts people is their high brutality, their radicalism, their strictness,” Maassen said.

One wonders why those 25 jihadists haven't been arrested.