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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/opinion/the-islamic-states-european-front.html?_r=0
The Islamic State's European Front
(New York Times) Daniel Byman - In the fight against the Islamic State, Europe has emerged as a key battleground and European security services are overwhelmed. Terrorists are free to cross Europe's open borders, but European security services often do not share lists of suspects and they do not have a common system for transliterating Arabic names. Europe also faces another difficulty: Muslim integration. In the U.S., many plots are disrupted because the American Muslim community reports them to the police and the FBI; such trust is lacking in Europe. The writer, a professor at Georgetown University, is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.