Threat: Terror camps (like above) are recruiting families because children provide cover for travelling parents
By Allan Hall

German intelligence is warning of a new breed of terrorist – whole family groups travelling to training camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border where they graduate in explosives, fundraising and suicide bombing training.

Parents travelling with children have in the past raised less suspicion than single men or women travelling to and from Germany.

Now officials have the names of 100 suspects they believe may be radicalised and ready to strike. 

Germany is braced for a terror attack after repeated threats because of its involvement in the armed mission in Afghanistan.

Authorities say the new breed of terrorist – including Germans who have converted to Islam – even travel with babies to the ‘banidt country’ of Waziristan.

‘Authorities are also concerned by the sheer speed with which this third generation are radicalised and their abrupt readiness to disappear and start a new life in a terror training camp,’ said a report in Der Spiegel magazine on Monday.

One couple was identified as Jan and Alexandra, 20 and 17, when they vanished with another couple from Berlin to learn radical Jihadism.

Alexandra was six months pregnant. They travelled from Berlin with another couple who authorities suspect were also headed for a new life as Jihadists.

Investigators believe Jan has appeared in a video for a new Jjihadist group, which posts threats on the Internet promising to blow up German landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the main railway station in Hamburg.