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The arrest of a Briton and reports that fighters from up to seven countries were among the terrorists threw a new spotlight on the extraordinary recruitment and radicalisation carried out on behalf of Al Shabaab, that has seen up to 200 people travel from the UK to Somalia to train with the notoriously brutal Islamists. So ruthless are some factions in the group that Britons who wanted to return home have been tortured while others have been held captive until their families have paid ransoms. BBC Panorama journalist Peter Taylor, who is making a programme about Al Shabaab recruitment, said yesterday he had interviewed two 16-year-olds who had been horrified at what they found in the camps. One was forced to watch the beheading of a deserter. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431029/Kenya-attack-Suspected-British-jihadist-arrested-Nairobi-airport-trying-board-Turkish-plane.html#ixzz2fuE1g4eg Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:12:30 +0000

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