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After
more than three years of sometimes fraught negotiations, the agreement
at peace talks in Havana marks the penultimate step to ending a war that
has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions of others.
In
the run-up to this Thursday's vote, foreign exchange bureaux have
reported long queues as people try to swap their pounds for euros or
dollars before the outcome of the Brexit referendum is known. Also
today, we look ahead to a busy 24 hours on the markets.
"ISIS
is looking for someone that's vulnerable, hurt … has something that
they're angry about and can be drawn into a mindset of geopolitics that
shows that Muslims are under attack and there's something they can do
about it."
Newsy spoke with Anne Speckhard, an adjunct professor
in the psychiatry department at Georgetown University Medical School and
the director of the Center for the Study of Violent Extremism.
She's
interviewed almost 500 terrorists/extremists or their family members.
So we asked her what she thought the typical profile of someone wanting
to join ISIS looks like.
"There is no profile of someone that's
going to join ISIS. So they have to do it over the internet, and they're
very happy to recruit extremely mentally ill people and ask them to go
get a gun or drive their car and kill a lot of people in the name of
ISIS."
"But there's also lonely people, people that are off
their track, people that are angry about geopolitics, people that have
different needs. Maybe they feel discriminated against, maybe they're
not feeling good in their lives, and suddenly ISIS comes over the
internet and starts talking to them and starts meeting their needs."
"Anybody that they can get their talons into is ideal for them."
From
her interviews, Speckhard found there's a difference between
radicalization in the U.S. and radicalization in Europe. Marginalized
groups throughout Europe make for easy targets for ISIS recruiters.
"It's
easier to recruit in Europe because they can do it face-to-face, so
there's actual recruiters on the street. They go to ghettoized
neighborhoods, and they can pour gasoline on low-level fires."
"In
Paris, in Brussels, in Antwerp, there are whole neighborhoods of North
Africans and other immigrant groups, second-generation. Some of them
went to college, but they're facing high unemployment, higher than
normal, relative deprivation. They feel discriminated against, alienated
and marginalized. So they have this low-level anger."
"They know
it's not fair, and they don't know what to do about it. ISIS comes and
says: 'This is your religion' — because these are Muslims they are
talking to — 'This is your religion, and I can offer you something much
better. And it's an alternative world governance, and come to the
caliphate.'"
"They're talking to people that were angry about
Afghanistan, angry about what's going on in West Bank and Gaza, angry
about Iraq, and now they're angry about Syria. And now they have
someplace to go, and it's easy to get to — all you have to do is fly to
Istanbul, keep going."
"If you're a young kid in Molenbeek,
you're facing 45 percent unemployment. They offer you a job, an
adventure, meaning, purpose, dignity, inclusion — being Muslim is a good
thing — and a wife and a sex slave."
Even sex can be a motivating factor for some potential recruits.
"I
call it sex now. When women offer themselves to a young guy and say, 'I
want to be with a mujahideen, and I'm willing to marry you and have sex
with you,' I mean, come on, that's a real motivator. There are, you
know, if you're unemployed and you're not going anywhere, it's hard to
attract a woman to be sexual with you."
As for what can be done
to help prevent radicalization, Speckhard says there needs to be more
involvement from both religious and medical professionals.
"We
need hotlines, we need rapid intervention teams, we need psychologists
that will go out and talk to these kids or older adults, and also we
need imams that can say, 'You know, you don't really have the right
version of Islam and most people don't even consider this Islam and this
is really hateful.' you know, between an Imam and a psychologist they
can get to, 'How did this hook you? What's inside of you that resonates
to this?'"
BATM
Advanced Communications Limited (LON:BVC) said this week that its Telco
Systems arm has completed a project that will enhance the connectivity
between Kenya’s universities.
The upgrade to 10-gigabit Ethernet will
allow the Kenya Education Network (KENET) “to provide a greater range
of services to its members”, the company said.
Ariel Efrati, chief
executive of Telco Systems, tells Proactive Investors the company is
also working on projects in the US and Australia, adding that he “hopes
to be announcing more of these” (projects), as it is providing a service
that is seeing a “high demand” at the moment.
“We are working on multiple targets” he adds, with a focus on signing “tier-one” deals.
The
full commercial roll-out of digital TV services provider Mirada Plc’s
(LON:MIRA) Iris multi-screen solution for Mexican telecoms giant izzi
Telecom is kicking off.
Izzi’s roll-out of its new TV box, which
brings together a number of different service providers as well as
allowing customers to control their viewing from a number of different
devices, will be accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign and its
four million subscribers will be able to take the new services via
izzi’s distribution channels from 4 July.
Jose Luis Vazquez, chief
executive, tells Proactive Investors “Mirada is central on [izzi’s] TV
strategy,” adding that “they are using our technology, our platform, and
what they have now is completely ahead of what has been ever deployed
in this market”.
He says the company will receive between US$3 and
US$5 per box, noting that “this is a defining moment in terms of revenue
for the company”.
mirada
is a company specialized in audiovisual interaction, whose formation
resulted from the merger of digital entertainment company Yoomedia and
the ...
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June 2016: After the initial lift in Tesco shares after the
better-than-forecast sales update, the stock would appear to have gone
as far as it can. Here Jeremy Naylor looks at the upside needed to clear
the slide in shares since September 2015.
