Locals concerned by 'Jihad training school'

"You're not local are you?"

According to the Independent newspaper anti-terrorism cops yesterday raided Britain's first home-grown jihad training school - in the Sussex village of Crowborough.

The Independent quotes the esteemed News of the World whose 'Home Office source' said "The training was extreme and macho. It involved endurance in bad weather and bonding. In that sense it was like combat training. They were being groomed for terror."

The Independent also quotes a 'local' person - who refused to be named - who said rumours had been circulating for "some time" that the school was being used to teach young Muslim extremists. "The school does nothing to integrate in the community. You rarely see any of the pupils or people associated with the school in the village."