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...Vasquez brothers and Parker, prosecutors allege, were involved in a plot to recruit area homeless people in to a robbery ring. Prosecutors said they organized a Halloween-night meeting at a Braintree hotel, during which they spoke to about 15 new gang recruits, including Rook...
...They were renegade Latin Kings,” Leppy said. “They wanted to recruit homeless people. It was a power move.” The group was told to bring the stolen items back to the hotel within three days, prosecutors said, but the suspects kept Rook as an insurance policy...
French investigators believe Kamel Daoudi is one such recruit; his tale illuminates both the nature of modern terrorist cells and their global reach. Daoudi was the kind of child that immigrant parents dream of having. The son of Algerians who had immigrated to France, he took the tough post-high school exams a year early and started to study computer sciences at a university in Paris. But he found the courses difficult, and according to reports, a family row exploded in 1999 when Daoudi's father found evidence of his son's appointments with psychiatrists. Daoudi left for Britain...
...attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went on to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Students were asked to learn all about demolition, artillery and light-weapon use, but they were also expected to be familiar with the fatwas of al-Qaeda, including those that called for violence against Muslim rulers who contradicted Islam...
...think Will’s ready to play,” Mazzoleni said. “We didn’t recruit him to sit on the bench...