US hosting security summit to counter violent extremism
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US President Barack Obama will invite allies to a February 18 security summit in Washington to try to prevent violent extremism, US Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday after meeting European counterparts in Paris.
The gathering of justice and interior chiefs came as France mourned 17 victims of Islamist gunmen in the worst assault on its homeland security in decades.
“We will bring together all of our allies to discuss ways in which we can counteract this violent extremism that exists around the world,” Holder told reporters.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after the meeting that European interior ministers had agreed to boost cooperation in an effort to thwart further jihadist attacks.
“We all agree that we need to put in place better control on certain passengers, on the basis of objective criteria and with respect for fundamental liberties and without disrupting cross-border travel,” he said.
He said Europe needed urgent progress in establishing a European Passenger Name Record database, which would facilitate the exchange of data about passengers between member states.
“We are convinced of the need for such a tool, to follow those who travel to terrorist operating theaters or who return from there,” he said, adding that the database would be useful in the fight against other crimes.
Cazeneuve said the Internet needs to remain a space for free expression, but that Europe should fight against abusive use of the web to spread hate speech, anti-Semitic messages and the recruiting of vulnerable young people for violence.
“We need to work more closely with Internet companies to guarantee the reporting and if possible removal of all content that amounts to an apology of terrorism or calls for violence and hatred,” he said.
The islamist militant attacks in Paris have fueled fears of similar assaults in other European countries and prompted a warning from German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
“I am very concerned about well-prepared perpetrators like those in Paris, Brussels, Australia or Canada,” he told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
There were about 260 people in Germany regarded as dangerous Islamists, he said.
Bild am Sonntag said US intelligence agencies had tapped conversations of senior Islamic State members in which they said the Paris attacks were the start of a series in Europe.
As with other west European countries, Germany is struggling to stop the radicalization of disaffected young Muslims, some of whom want to become insurgents in Syria or Iraq.
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