Asean member states are preparing to tackle during a summit next week a most urgent security risk that in Europe is already causing a serious ethical dilemma for its governments.

Thousands of surviving jihadists who have fought and lost the war in Iraq and Syria, along with their families, have started going back home, and are now regarded as security threats to their countries. Authorities are worried that from among them would come rabid crusaders who could carry out lone-wolf attacks, if not regroup and launch new attempts to set up caliphates elsewhere to prove their jihadist cause is alive.

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