The Threat of Homegrown Terrrorism

nationalterroralert.com/Boston.com (Link Only) ^ | 10/26/09 | Lydia Khalil

[Kartographer]

Lydia Khalil, a former counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department, and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations looks at homegrown terrorism, recent plots and arrests and what they may signify.

The apprehension last week of Sudbury native Tarek Mehanna is the fifth terrorism-related arrest in the United States in as many months, putting homegrown radicalism back on the radar screen. But many question whether individuals like Mehanna are the “real deal.’’ Do they really pose a significant terrorist threat or are they acting out but lack the capability to inflict any real damage? How dangerous are homegrown radicals? Will the United States, like Europe, become more susceptible to native radicals rather than terrorist plots hatched abroad from organized groups like Al Qaeda?

[Crim]

If the desire is there the rest is a matter of formality...

[Cindy]

SNIPPET from post no. 1:

“But many question whether individuals like Mehanna are the “real deal.’’”

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OPINION:

I don’t.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367836/posts?page=31#31

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Background Link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367836/posts

“Feds: Sudbury man planned terror attacks on malls”
My Fox Boston ^ | 10/21/09 | Mike Levine
Posted on October 21, 2009 1:58:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

[Cindy]

blog:

http://www.terraplexic.org/current-intelligence/2009/10/22/when-ideologues-plan-to-attack.html

“WHEN IDEOLOGUES (PLAN TO) ATTACK”
—Author: Marisa Urgo

SNIPPET: “Today, the FBI arrested for a second time Tarek Mehanna, a 27 year old Massachusetts man. This time Mehanna was arrested on various terrorism-related charges associated with a plot to attack shopping malls. Mehanna’s plot appears to have been more “aspirational” rather than operational.

However, the Mehanna arrest is significant, because he was a member of a prominent circle of young Salafist-Jihadists living in the United States. His blog was primarily dedicated to Salafist-Jihadist thought, and it was regularly linked back on by other members of the circle. Those members remain very active online, blogging and sharing jihadi media. They are for the most part the virtual epicenter of Salafist-Jihadism in the United States.”

—Filed On: Oct 22, 2009 at 0:29
—Index: ideas, law, terrorism

[Cindy]

SNIPPET from post no. 5:

"...in the United States."

[ETL]

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Do they really pose a significant terrorist threat or are they acting out but lack the capability to inflict any real damage?

Nah, nothing to worry about. They are just "acting out." Move along. Snark. Pre-9/11 mindset.