Posted on 08/15/2009 11:11:16 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Since 9/11, the general focus on prison radicalism in the media and in government has been on the process of certifying imams and literature available to inmates. Fully understanding the impact of this phenomenon, however, requires a historical look back at Islam in prison. The seeds of jihad were planted in the prison soil by men like Warith Deen Umar long before we were attacked in 2001.
Having spent 26 years working in New York 's Department of Correctional Services, I have witnessed this process of radicalization first-hand.
Sometimes it was monitored; sometimes a recruitment cell was infiltrated. As the Deputy Inspector General of the Criminal Intelligence Unit, I was a part of a special investigation called Operation Hades that probed the radical Islamic recruitment movement from both inside and outside prison walls. It was a startling revelation to me, working undercover, to see how the process works.
What follows are observations and examples based on that experience."
(Excerpt) Read more at investigativeproject.org ...
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