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Al-Qaeda's Stealth Weapons: Muslim Converts
(Los Angeles Times) Sebastian Rotella - A Moroccan court sentenced Pierre Richard Robert to life in prison Thursday after convicting him of recruiting and training Moroccan extremists for a terrorist campaign. He joins an unlikely group of men with non-Muslim backgrounds that includes Richard Reid, the British "shoe bomber"; American Jose Padilla, an alleged al-Qaeda operative being held as an enemy combatant; and Christian Ganczarski, a German convert arrested in June by French police. They represent a dangerous trend: converts who assume front-line roles as recruiters and plotters.