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ISIS and Homegrown Terrorists

Last month, France was under siege for three days by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda in Yemen or Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorists. It’s regarded as the vilest paroxysm of terrorism in France since the Algerian War and was labeled as France’s 9/11. The impact created by these atrocious attacks intensified worries about the failure of the French security and intelligence agencies. Apart from that the home grown threat is very much evidence on these attacks. This phenomenon is held as new terrorism. Typically, home grown terrorists are emerging from sleeper cells and their attacks on civilian targets will be decisive as evidence in Paris attacks. Last week, the most wanted terrorist in South East Asia, Zulkifli bin Adhir, alias Marwan has been killed in Maguindanao, South Philippines as reported by media. He is from Malaysia. The growing concern on terrorism especially the false attraction of ISIS on recruiting young Malaysians fighting in for