Extremists using national parks

[emad]

Extremists using national parks
12 August 2005

Islamic extremists are running "indoctrination" camps in Britain's national parks, according to a senior police officer.

West Yorkshire chief constable Colin Cramphorn argued that the police need greater powers to combat the extremists' efforts to radicalise young Muslims.

Mr Cramphorn, whose force has played a leading role in the investigation into the July 7 bombings of London - the suicide bomber team was based on his patch - made his comments in an interview for The Spectator.

Mr Cramphorn told the magazine: "Consider the training camps run in this country by the extremists.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/PA_NEWA63202341123833281A0?source=PA%20Feed


???

[htuttle]

1. Well, they got the idea from White Supremacists

Been going on for some years now.

I remember a friend telling me about regularly hearing machine gun fire in a national forest in Oregon almost 8 years ago.


on edit:
Oh, I see that the OP is about Britain. Well, it's happening here in the US, too.

[Mizmoon]

2. The peaceful Rainbow Family uses the forests too

they are extreme ... extremely stoned that is :P

[htuttle]

5. Yes they do

But at least THEY leave their automatic weapons at home!

Usually.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. They are extremists too...ask Ashcroft.

[NNN0LHI]

3. This has been going on for century's

Man the catapults!

[emad]

4. Beware the Sherrif of Nottingham.....

lurking in the Bushes....

[daleo]

7. How can you stop people from going to a park?

""They're not like IRA camps in Donegal where people are learning how to fire mortars. They're actually pure indoctrination camps."
...
Mr Cramphorn, a former deputy chief constable of the RUC, voiced frustration at the extent of the authorities' powers to combat such activities."

Short of shutting down national parks, what could possibly be done?