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Title: Report Says US Has Failed To Create Systems To Deal With Homegrown Terror
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2010-09-10-00-15-17
Published: Sep 10, 2010
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2010-09-10 01:38:25 by Brian S
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Views: 2457
Comments: 6

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.

The report says U.S. authorities failed to realize that Somali-American youths traveling from Minnesota to Mogadishu in 2008 to join extremists was not an isolated issue. Instead, the movement was one among several instances of a broader, more diverse threat that has surfaced across the country.

"Our long-held belief that homegrown terrorism couldn't happen here has thus created a situation where we are today stumbling blindly through the legal, operational and organizational minefield of countering terrorist radicalization and recruitment occurring in the United States," said the report, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

As a result, there is still no federal agency specifically charged with identifying radicalization or working to prevent terrorist recruitment of U.S. citizens and residents, said the report, slated to be released Friday by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group.

The group, headed by former 9-11 commission leaders Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, laid out a detailed description of domestic terror incidents ranging from the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting spree and the attempted Christmas Day airliner attack in late 2009 to last May's botched truck bombing in New York's Times Square.

Over the past year, terrorism experts and government officials have warned of the threat posed by homegrown radicals, saying terror recruits who go abroad could return to the U.S. to carry out attacks.

But the U.S., the group said, should have learned earlier from Britain's experience. Prior to the 2005 London suicide bombings, the British believed that Muslims there were better integrated, educated and wealthier than their counterparts elsewhere.

Similarly, the U.S. believed that its melting pot of nationalities and religions would protect it from internal radical strife, the report said.

The terrorists, said the report, may have discovered America's "Achilles' heel in that we currently have no strategy to counter the type of threat posed by homegrown terrorists and other radicalized recruits."

U.S. officials have acknowledged the need to address the radicalization problem, and for the first time, the White House this year added combating homegrown terrorism to its national security strategy. The plan includes a "new interagency effort that brings together key stakeholders" and continued "outreach to communities across the country," said Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser.

The FBI, meanwhile, has worked to reach out to the Somali communities, in an effort to counter the radicalization of the youth.

The report also points to an "Americanization" of the leadership of al-Qaida and its allied groups, noting that radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who had links with suspects in the failed Times Square bombing and the Fort Hood shootings, grew up in New Mexico. And Chicagoan David Headley played a role in scoping the targets for the Lashkar-e-Taiba attacks on Mumbai in late 2008 that killed more than 160.

Abroad, Al-Qaida, its affiliates and other extremist groups have splintered and spread, seeking safe havens in undergoverned areas of Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and places in North and East Africa. That diversified threat has intensified as militants reach out to potential recruits through the Internet.

Assessing future threats, the report lists potential future domestic targets, including passenger jets, western or American hotel chains, Jewish or Israeli sites and U.S. soldiers, even at their own bases in America.

And it also warns that it is no longer wise to believe that American extremists will not resort to suicide bombings. As an example they point to Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 in last year's shootings at Fort Hood, saying he had written about suicide operations in e-mails, and that his attack appeared to be one.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

But President Obama told us that the Iraq war had "taken our eye off the ball" in our GWOT.

WTF is up with the incompetence of this administration???/

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Nebuchadnezzar  posted on  2010-09-10   2:00:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

(EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman declared “I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington DC that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink” and that we “. . . need not be concerned about environmental issues as [we return to [our] homes and workplaces”.

Yet to this day, at least 900 first responders have since died as a result of the effects of toxic “dust” from the buildings and the some 3,000 human remains that enveloped lower Manhattan and which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declared “We must clear the rubble”. This “rubble” in fact constituted evidence from a massive crime scene, but was hauled away, first to Long Island, and then was eventually placed on barges and shipped to China.

Along with the ecocide of the Gulf and it's citizens.

Can't get more terror than that. 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-10   8:55:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2) (Edited)

STRANGE the way NO ONE wants to talk about 9/11 here on the AnNIVERSARY. OR almost anywhere else. Your WORLD turned upside down by 9/11 and yet it's the Dog That wil NOT Bark.

Cat got your collective tongues.

Quran Burning a more Burning topic?

Wonder why your WORLD just doesn't make sense?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

But, as fate would have it, things didn't go according to plan. Incredibly, when the conspirators pushed the button on WTC 7, nothing happened. For whatever reason, the explosive system in WTC 7 had failed and the building stubbornly remained intact. In an instant, the success of an elaborate plot to entirely destroy a New York City landmark (one that, according to many people who lived and worked in the area, had been obsolete for years and become a blight on lower Manhattan) had fallen into confusion.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-10   10:04:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

"We were there to provide radio, telephone, computer, cellular phone, and paging support for the assembly," said Sergeant Haynes. The four had left a morning briefing and begun preparing for the day's mission when the first airliner struck the north tower.

Mark Provo audio interview in the Library of Congress Part 1 archive Part 2 archive

Military unit number three Navy EOD MU 6, Jim Prewitt, team leader archive

That morning, Prewitt, assigned to EOD Mobile Unit 6, was working as a team leader with the U.S. Secret Service in New York City. While on his way to a brief in building seven of the World Trade Center Complex, the first plane struck the north tower.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-10   10:20:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)

WTF is up with the incompetence of this administration???/

Since Nixon, after a while you have to start asking yourself if this is incompetence.

Or if it's a plan.

Like why did the SS leave bush43 in a publicly declared spot for 45 min. on 9/11.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-10   10:21:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Brian S (#0)

You expect an Administration in love with William Ayers and his idiot savant wifey Bernedette to do...what?

(laughing)

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-10   12:43:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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