'Sudden jihad syndrome' poses domestic risk

Washington Times ^ | January 2, 2008

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Sympathy for al Qaeda has produced "sudden jihad syndrome" in domestic terror cells unaffiliated with foreign terrorists and people seeking to carry out attacks in the U.S., a law-enforcement intelligence analysis says.

The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department's Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as "wannabes," saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security.

"Oftentimes, these attackers are dismissed as suffering from mental health issues, but their own words and writings reveal an affiliation with Islamic supremacy or an affinity for Islamic extremism," said the report, which was distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement in Texas. "As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism."

It said they might act with the intention of eventually joining al Qaeda or the jihad movement overseas.

The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, cited al Qaeda theorist Abu Mu'ab al Suri's book "Call to Global Islamic Resistance," in which Mu'ab al Suri noted that the future of al Qaeda terrorist fighters will depend on individual and small-group terrorists.

The intelligence analysis says homegrown groups are not purely "domestic," as their ideology is similar if not exactly like those of international terrorist groups...

The report includes several examples of people with "sudden jihad syndromes," such as Ali R. Warrayat, a Palestinian-Jordanian Muslim who drove his car into an Arizona Home Depot with the purpose of destroying the store and those inside it. The suspect said he would wear a Palestine flag but later decided to place the flag and a copy of the Koran inside his trunk.

[ConservativeMind]

It sounds like another mental disorder seeking special status for financial gain.

[2banana]

The answer? - The 2nd Amendment...

[tired1]

sudden muslim syndrone.

[kinoxi]

islam. Could you imagine image trying to integrate the nazis during WWII? Or ‘integrating and understanding’ the communists during the Cold War?

[tired1]

Could you imagine image trying to integrate the nazis during WWII? Or ‘integrating and understanding’ the communists during the Cold War?

actually, we have more commies here than the USSR ever had.

[Mr. Mojo]

The U.S. needs to get a nasty case of Sudden Muslim Deportation Syndrome.

............or at least a case of Sudden No More Muslim Immigration Syndrome.

[Baladas]

I thought the Democrat Party did.

[kinoxi]

The current dem party is the success of the ussr during the Cold War IMO. They (ussr) paid for political influence. They received the dem party. Active admission and acceptance such as the "I never read their book but those muslims look so clean" crowd espouses is suicide.

[Cobra64]

Surprised? Seems to me we're well aware of a terrorist occurance.

[elcid1970]

I only pray that if I’m in the vicinity when an islamomuzzie goes off with Sudden Jihad Syndrome, that I will reply with a burst of

“Sudden Crusader Syndrome”.

(NRA Life Member, .45 Auto my favorite, CCW, you get the idea.)

Oh, and my .45 hardball is dipped in pig grease. Not making any of this up. Time to get real, folks. It’s a real war and it’s here every day. As someone said recently, EVERY state is a border state now.

Deus vult!

[MrLee]

That map is 5-6 years old!! I’m sure it’s worse now.