Fun in the sun (or rain, given that it's England and Oregon)

Seems the Brits have nipped a local Islamic training scheme in the bud, putting the ringleaders on trial for setting up paramilitary camps: "Prosecutors told a court hearing that the men set up camps in idyllic spots across England to train in a range of paramilitary skills. National parks in the Lake District, in northern England, and the New Forest, in southern England, and quiet corners of the southern counties of Berkshire, Kent and East Sussex were all used for training — including a former school."
"Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings."
"Dozens trained at Hamid's camps were hoping to carry out attacks, said a senior police official, who demanded anonymity to discuss counterterrorism work. 'There was repeated talk of finding and killing nonbelievers', he said."
"The British camps, which gave instruction to about 10 men at a time, also offer a glimpse of the training centers British-based radicals hoped to open in Oregon, in the United States, before authorities halted their plans."

Rico says everybody laughed at the camps in Oregon; maybe they shouldn't have...