Philip Ingram: Using HUMINT in Cyberspace Is Best to Fight Extremists Online

... transit route from Southern Europe to Northern Europe; we have seen that with migrants from North Africa, Syria, and elsewhere. Migrant routes tend to follow smuggling routes as it is often criminal networks that drive the smuggling of people. Former ISIS fighters are known to have moved into Europe with genuine refugees as they either return home or move to countries with the aim of setting up sleeper cells. The Balkans are the ancient boundary between the furthest expansion of the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the interface between the Orthodox religion and the Muslim religion. During the Bosnian conflict, there was a foreign fighter brigade ...