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The European Union's policing agency said Thursday that Islamic militants are exploiting a growing nexus between organized crime and terrorism to secure financing and weaponry for new attacks. Terrorist groups frequently engage in crime to finance their operations, but the emergence of new recruits with substantial criminal backgrounds and an ability to tap in to the resources of their former underworld networks is a "notable trend," Europol said in its first major threat assessment of organized crime and terrorism in four years. The recruits "typically do not fill major roles within organized crime networks," but still provide terrorist groups an...