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Photo Gallery The Third Generation

A wave of Germans are traveling to training camps for militant jihadists has alarmed security officials back in Europe. The recruits are quickly becoming radicalized and, in some cases, entire families are departing to hotbeds for terrorism. It is even believed that colonies catering to German Islamists have taken shape in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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A threat video created by the so-called "German Taliban." The video, released on the Internet this fall, threatens to take the jihad to German cities. The message was illustrated with images of the Brandenburg Gate and the main railway station in Hamburg and even Oktoberfest in Munich.

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A propaganda video featuring German Islamist Eric Breininger (left) and Ahmet M., a Turk born in Germany who is believed to be a key recruiter in the Germany-speaking Islamist scene.

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Islamist Cüneyt Ciftci, a former employee for Bosch, who hailed from the quiet southern German town of Ansbach, carried out a suicide bombing in Afghanistan in March 2008.

Foto: AP
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The explosion, shown here in a video still, killed four people.

Foto: SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Hamburg's renamed Taiba mosque is in the same building where Mohammed Atta, the top terrorist who died in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, used to come to worship as he planned the most spectacular act of terrorism ever committed.

Foto: A3576 Maurizio Gambarini/ dpa
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