Their indoctrination and expertise comes from "Sheik Google" and the world wide web.
"To a large extent, the internet has replaced actual training camps as a source of instruction and inspiration for militant Muslims," says the AFP analysis.
Everything they need can be found on the hundreds of extremist websites: how to make bombs, avoid surveillance, achieve physical fitness and justify violence on religious grounds.
"Sheik Google"
Unlike their illiterate, raggedy-ass compatriots in the Khandahar trenches...
