Jomana Karadsheh
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But they have been looking into whether they're using criminal proxies to hire them.
Are they using gangs?
This is a tactic that we've seen the Iranian intelligence use in the past in places like Sweden and Germany.
That is one possibility there.
The other one is online recruitment.
That's how we started really digging into these online channels and how easy it is to recruit young people these days.
It literally is one click away.
And we heard from one of the suspects in the UK, a 17-year-old who targeted the Kenton Synagogue in Northwest London, that firebomb attack.
The 17-year-old in a statement said he had no idea that this was a synagogue.
that he has nothing against the Jewish people.
So that, of course, raised questions.
What are these kids being told that they're doing?
I mean, it's very difficult to get into because of, you know, the regulations in the UK and what was said in court.
But I can tell you this, we went to the synagogue.
it's hard to miss what it was, right?
You can see the Hebrew writing outside.
You can see a big menorah as well outside.
So it's clearly a synagogue.
And then in the case of another 17-year-old in Belgium, we spoke with his lawyer who described, you know, the situation with this kid.
She said he was used as cannon fodder, that they're getting paid