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Germany Grapples with Refugee Tips in Terror Probes
(Wall Street Journal) Ruth Bender and Mohammad Nour Alakraa - It was three Syrian refugees in Germany who captured and turned in Syrian terror suspect Jaber Albakr in October. Refugees from the Middle East have been banding together to hound suspected terrorists and war criminals hiding among the nearly two million who have settled in Europe over the last two years, most of them in Germany. In Frankfurt, a Syrian human rights activist is collecting files on suspected war criminals and Islamists. Online, refugees are posting pictures of suspected war criminals at a pace authorities can barely keep up with. Some of the information is invaluable, security officials said. In Germany, authorities have received 445 tips on potential terror and Islamist supporters over the past 18 months, and another 1,250 on suspected war criminals this year, according to the federal criminal agency BKA. Islamic State has boasted of directing three attacks in Germany this year.