Extremist Terrorist Recruiters Target Vulnerable Australian Teens: ASIO

Extremist Terrorist Recruiters Target Vulnerable Australian Teens: ASIO
A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw on Feb. 28, 2013. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
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Children as young as 13 are being targeted by extremist recruiters as the number of terrorism leads under investigation doubled over the past year.

Mike Burgess, the boss of Australia’s domestic intelligence agency ASIO, says terrorism remains a threat.

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