Tackling a hydra

摘要

On the face of things, Europeans have recently been doing rather well at sniffing out and grabbing suspected Islamist terrorists. The biggest batch to date was scooped up on January 24th in Spain, when some 200 anti-terrorist policemen, after tip-offs from the French and British intelligence services, raided a dozen flats in towns in the north-eastern province of Catalonia and picked up 16 Arabs, all but one from Algeria, and found, among other dodgy items, bomb-making devices, false passports and nasty chemicals.