BERLIN - German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is using his trip to North Africa to promote the new
"counter-terrorism cooperation" with the Arab world. His visits to
Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria will focus not only on expanding economic
cooperation, but particularly on the common struggle "against terrorism
and extremism," according to the foreign ministry.
After her talks with
the Arab League's Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, the European Union's
foreign policy coordinator, Federica Mogherini had already announced relevant
projects including intensified intelligence sharing. New "security
attachés" will be working out of EU foreign missions in some of the Arab
countries, while keeping contact to their respective intelligence services.
Experts are demanding that intelligence cooperation be intensified, also within
the EU.
The struggle is aimed at the Jihadists, who had achieved their
breakthrough, due to the rearmament by the West and its Middle Eastern allies
waging wars against the governments of Libya and Syria. The
"counter-terrorism cooperation" will strengthen the authoritarian
structures, against which large sectors of the populations of several Arab
countries had been so massively revolting in 2010 and 2011.
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