Migrant Smuggling Networks and Jihadist Terrorism

For an understanding of the future of violent jihadism and the structure it may take, it is important to examine how it may be financed. One possible source may be Smuggling of Migrants (SoM). The business permits the creation of financial capital, in the centre (in the Middle East) as well as in territorialised cells inside the “global jihad.” It also permits networking and transfer of militant jihadists. The criminal money obtained in this business may become one of the techniques for financing jihadist terrorism in the future. This should not be surprising, since this technique was and remains practised