Australia is trying to figure out how to keep Muslim criminals from being radicalized in prison and emerging as potential terrorists. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock says, “We have seen an increase in extremist Islamic activity in some of our prisons,” and notes that “there have been cases overseas where individuals have turned to extremism while in prison and have undertaken later terrorist attacks following their release, or have encouraged others to do so.” Officials cited Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who emerged from jail as an Islamic radical to become head of al-Qaida in Iraq before he was killed in a U.S. bombing attack, and Richard Reid, who spent time in a British jail and is serving life in an American prison after trying to explode a bomb concealed in his shoe on a flight from France to the U.S.

-AP