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The Threat of "Homegrowns" ~~( Thoughts on the JFK Airport Bombing Plot)
The Counterterrorism Blog ^ | June 3, 2007 | Jonathan Winer

Posted on 06/03/2007 7:52:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The reported plot in New York to bomb Kennedy International Airport, like the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid, last year's terrorist plots in Toronto and Ottawa, and the plans of a group led by a Miami Haitian to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, featured not foreigners specially imported by Al Qaeda, but homegrowns, members of foreign Diaspora groups now based locally and seeking to demonstrate their political attitudes through a spectacular attack.

As FBI Director Mueller warned last year, however much we may manage to degrade the capabilities of Al Qaeda, we have not yet effectively dealt with the ideological legitimation that has taken place in too many parts of the world within fringe groups who have come to believe that the United States needs a violent come-uppance. Information on how to commit carnage is widely available online, as well as locations to obtain ideological support. Yet the footprint of individuals planning together to carry out such an attack may be little more than a ghostly palimpsest, except for the efforts to reach out to better known terrorist figures. It is that outreach that may have given away the would-be New York attackers. Like Theodore Kaczynski, in the end, they want not only to make their destructive impact, but to get credit for it.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqueda; caribbean; iran; islamofascists; jfkairport; jihadinamerica; wot

1 posted on 06/03/2007 7:52:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

These articles always mention unibomber and mcveigh yet since then there have been dozens of muslims involved in terror. The 19+1,Padilla, the campus suv drivers, the lackawanna 6, the el al counter shooter, the seattle shooter. etc


2 posted on 06/03/2007 7:57:52 PM PDT by omega4179 (El 43.o presidente de los Estados Unidos De Norteamérica Jorge W Bush)
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To: omega4179

The MSM wants to lump regular nut cases with Islamic nut cases to not offend Islam. More PC nonsense. The problem with that is Islam has a lot more cash and weapons and millions of potential soldiers.


3 posted on 06/03/2007 8:19:52 PM PDT by ca centered
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To: ca centered

Islam must be proclaimed for the hate-mongering, bloody, fanatical DEATH CULT that it is and OUTLAWED and BANISHED as a form of HATE.

In this case, I must say that I favor hate-speech laws, especially if they are brought to bear against the Islamic morons who can go “jihadi” any second.

We used to have an expression about “going postal”.

Now it’s “going jihadi”.

Islam should be outlawed.

All visa and green-card holding Mohammedans must be deported.

All mosques must be closed and turned into pork rendering factories.


4 posted on 06/04/2007 4:54:00 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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To: Westbrook

100% Concur. The sooner the better. Meanwhile, those mooselimbs should leave the US NOW!!!!


5 posted on 06/04/2007 5:06:29 AM PDT by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

6 posted on 06/04/2007 5:09:46 AM PDT by Gritty (The best way to deal with the Islamic world is to have as little to do with it as possible -Fjordman)
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To: Gritty

Too damn true!


7 posted on 06/04/2007 9:52:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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