Take a look at this video of the compounds on our soil and the military training that is taking place. How long will it take before someone gets the bright idea that maybe, just maybe, this might have something to do with what is being taught in mosques in the U.S.? "Homegrown Terror on the Rise in 2009," by Diane Macedo for FoxNews, December 14: The five young Americans accused last week of traveling from Washington to Pakistan to wage jihad cap what appears to be a record year for homegrown terror plots, exposing a dangerous trend that experts say poses the biggest challenge America's security officials have ever faced. Not including the Pakistan case, the Rand Corporation says that of the nearly 30 homegrown terror plots uncovered in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, 10 surfaced in this year alone, including two actual attacks -- in Little Rock, Ark. and Fort Hood, Texas. That puts "the level of activity in 2009 much higher than that of previous years," Rand Senior Adviser Brian Jenkins told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month. "There's definitely a rise in jihad recruits and volunteers in the United States, whether they're concerning plots here in the U.S. or whether they involve material support to terror plots overseas," says counterterrorism analyst Steve Emerson, author of "American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us." Danny Coulson, former deputy assistant director of the FBI, agrees. "I ran the entire terrorism program for the FBI for a period of time, and just from what you see in the newspaper there have been more American Islamic extremists terrorists arrested than years in the past," Coulson told FoxNews.com. A major concern, Coulson says, is that the majority of the suspects in the 2009 cases have no direct links to major terror organizations. "They're just homegrown terrorists who sympathize with the same Islamic extremist philosophy, and although they're not connected by order or by organization, they're connected by philosophy and religion," he said....
Thursday 17 December 2009
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