PARGETER Alison <br/><br/>
Western converts to radical Islam:    the global jihad's a new soldiers 

 -  2006 
<br/><br/> Western converts to militant forms of Islam might constitute the new generation of recruits to the al-Qaeda movement.  It is difficult to ascertain any neat pattern or typical profile of those converts who have been willing to espouse violence in the name of Islam a number of trends and similarities are discernable among those known. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>TERRORISM<br/>AL-QAEDA<br/>TERRORISTS