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Iraq could become center for Islamist terror: German secret service

IRNA

Berlin, Sept 24, IRNA -- The head of Germany`s foreign intelligence 
service BND warned that Iraq could become a safe haven for Islamist 
terrorists, the website of the weekly Spiegel magazine reported 
Wednesday. 
"That is the concern I have which is that Iraq could develop into 
a center for Islamist extremism," BND President August Hanning said in
Berlin. 
"We are experiencing now that Iraq has become the crystallization 
point of Jihad," Hanning added. 
Hanning compared the situation of post-war Iraq to Afghanistan of 
the 1980s during which Islamist terror groups gained foothold in the 
war-stricken country. 
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