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And now, Generation G Had. Across the Western world, it's no longer the threat emanating

from the al-Qaeda leadership that governments are most concerned about. Instead, its home-grown

terror plots hatched by their own citizens. In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor

uncovers a network of extremists stretching across the world.

They are a generation of angry young Muslims, some willing to justify violence. Others

willing to carry it out.

They are al-Qaeda entrepreneurs. They are the entrepreneurs of Jihad.

For this BBC series, I've spent the last year investigating how one network spread across

three continents, recruiting vulnerable young men to violent Jihad.

Generation Jihad has roots in countries across the world. But one of its key figures

was born and bred in Britain. His name is Abid Hussein Khan.

Evan Coleman, a US terrorism analyst, says that at the age of 22, Khan had already been

running a website that encouraged violent Jihad and suicide bombings for several years.

Abid Khan was a Jihadian entrepreneur. He was someone who, from a very young age, was

internet plugged in. I mean, he was a web fanatic, right? But back in the day, there wasn't

really that much about Jihad on the internet. But what there was, Khan zeroed in on it.

Khan used his internet expertise to build a website in Bradford, Northern England.

On the surface, it was a place where English speakers could get hold of translations

of radical Islamic texts. But its real importance was to seduce young people into the world

of extremism. Khan himself had become fascinated by radical Islam at the age of just 12.

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