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Al Qaeda is major threat to EU: anti-terror chief Reuters Al Qaeda remains the major terrorist threat to the European Union and a fresh attack by Islamist militants is likely, the bloc's new anti-terrorism chief said on Monday. "An attack perpetrated by local or international networks remains likely," Gilles de Kerchove, appointed in September to coordinate member states' counter-terrorism policies, told EU lawmakers. "Al Qaeda ... continues to be the most serious terrorism threat to Europe," de Kerchove told the European Parliament's justice, liberty and security committee.
(Article continues below) He said the movement founded by Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, who inspired the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, inspired local radicals. The Belgian official said many EU countries were particularly concerned by radical terrorism in North Africa.
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