How should Europe tackle terrorism?

Columnist Alain Lallemand considers that a "new generation of terrorists lacking paramilitary training" has emerged. "The 'Base,' of the Bin Ladin and Al-Zawahiri creed, which prepared the attacks in Nairobi or New York up to five years in advance, is actually an outdated structure. ... As a result, prevention has become delicate: finished are the systems and grand networks. The basics of finding potential terrorists focuses on the moment when the individual moves beyond radical ideology - to think, while bad, is thankfully not a crime - to a project and then the planning (very rapid, according to the new thinking) of reprehensible acts. With regard to individual liberties, we are on very sensitive ground: few tools available allow us to catch, without unacceptably encroaching on our freedoms, this transformation from private engagement to public terrorist activity."

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