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Al Qaeda members are not going to recruit in the states. This is pointless to try and "get in with them" here in the states. Al Qaeda members go to another country and are trained there for the better part of their training. Then they are given orders,codes, and means to live by and then when they are ordered to act...they do it. The government has years before they can put a dent in this. This war is just beginning and this article is junk. No offense to the original poster.

They don't train in the States, but they certainly are keen to recruit Americans (naturalized or otherwise) to their ranks for passport and documentation purposes. John Walker, Hesham Mohammed Hadayet, Jose Padilla, Semi Osman, the Ujaama brothers, the Detriot Six, the Buffalo Six, and on and on.

However, while they may recruit in the States, they train overseas, sending prospective jihadis to Yemen or Pakistan for ideological indoctrination before sending them on to terrorist training camps in Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other allied states.

The chances of the FBI actually penetrating a real sleep cell (as opposed to some wannabes), however, are somewhat unlikely given the stringent efforts the group goes through in order to protect itself. Still, it's nice to know that they're keeping tabs on the wannabes.