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...long decried those laws, and Bruguiere's frequent use of them brazen infringement of civil liberties. Those complaints seem almost petty in a post-9/11 world. "The U.S., U.K., and other nations now all have anti-terrorism laws that go far beyond ours," notes independent terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "Bruguiere's use of them also looks very responsible given what we've seen elsewhere - Guantanamo just for starters...
With Bruguiere leaving scene, France's counter-terrorism services will be losing a substantial piece of their institutional memory. "From Carlos to bin Laden, by way of state terrorism from Iran and Syria, Bruguiere has learned the histories, methods, and thinking of all kinds individuals and groups staging attacks," Jacquard says. "Beating these movements requires remembering everyone who has issued from them, and using that as your database in analyzing their evolutions and mutations. That's been Bruguiere...
...French terror expert Roland Jacquard points out that the AQIM was formed by a hard core of leaders who now view with disdain the holdouts of their former organization, the GSPC, still operating in the southern part of Algeria. Similarly, Moroccan extremists are frequently divided into small, local groups who turned locally recruited impoverished youths into the hastily trained kamikazes that botched the recent Casablanca bombings. More sophisticated groups connected with Qaeda leaders in the Gulf may have recruited officers in the security forces and pilots in the national airline, but they have also been more closely monitored...
...discovery of an organization with those kinds of members led Moroccan authorities to come down even harder on Salafist movements than they had before," says Jacquard, noting that over 400 suspected radicals are awaiting trial in Morocco today. "Ironically, the level of police pressure means Moroccan groups actually have more active members in Spain, Italy, and France today than they do in Morocco...
...best manner of preventing regional jihadist cooperation and structures from forming is by keeping groups scrambling to avoid detection at home," the French counter-terror official says. Preventing that happening in north Africa is vital for Europe, and France in particular, Jacquard notes. "If they can coordinate and become efficient through cooperation there, there's no doubt they'll export that for terror purposes here," Jacquard warns. "That's inevitable - and it's why European security services view north Africa as Europe's front line in fighting terrorism...