United Kingdom

A man appearing in a recent ISIS recruiting video has been identified as Raqib, a Bangladeshi from Aberdeen. Police, intelligence, and local Muslim communities have said that there is a problem of Islamic radicalization in Cardiff, the city where the other two jihadists in the video came from. Labour MP Khalid Mahmood claimed that as many as 2,000 Britons may have been recruited by extremists. Lord Carlisle, a former independent reviewer of terrorism laws, echoed the assessment of former MI6 counterterrorism director Richard Barrett that UK authorities will not be able to track all returning British jihadists, and recommended reintroducing measures like the “control orders” that were scrapped in 2011.

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