German Army to prevent Islamist infiltration with all-out background checks on new recruits
"All recruits willing to join the Germany military will have to undergo detailed background and security checks – run by the military intelligence agency – that would rule out a threat of insider attacks and help detect Islamists and far-right extremists.
“Currently there are indications that Islamist circles are trying to insert the so-called short-time servicemen to the armed forces so that they can receive such [military] training,” reads an introduction to the draft cited by DPA news agency.
On Sunday, Die Welt cited an unnamed military official who claimed that there is “a three-digit number of suspected extremists in the armed forces,” among them “268 right-wing extremists, 64 Islamists and six left-wing extremists.”