U.S. Has 'No Strategy' to Confront Homegrown Terror, Security Group Warns -- FOX News
The United States has failed to anticipate the danger from homegrown terrorists and now faces the most complex set of threats since the Sept. 11 attacks, analysts on an organization headed by the two 9/11 Commission co-chairmen warned Friday.
Unveiling a new report a day before the nation marks nine years since the 2001 attacks, members of the National Security Preparedness Group said Al Qaeda and other terror groups are increasingly turning to U.S. citizens to carry out attacks on the United States. Though the U.S. at one time may have thought its cultural "melting pot" would provide a "firewall" against radicalization from within, group member Bruce Hoffman said that assumption turned out to be false.
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More News On Homegrown Terrorist Threats
Terror Threat More Diverse, Study Says -- Wall Street Journal
Report: Homegrown Terrorists Pose Biggest Threat -- NPR
Sober Reading: Threat Of Homegrown Terrorists -- NPR
US faces growing homegrown terror threat: report -- AFP
The Terrorists Are Coming From Inside the Country! American Citizens Now Our Biggest Threat -- New York Magazine
US 'failing to identify domestic terrorism' -- The Australian/AP
New report upends "homegrown terror" assumptions -- Salon
Al-Shabab, Minneapolis Somali youth highlighted in new terrorism report -- Minnesota Independent
Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem -- Real Clear Politics
My Comment: The full report from the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group can be read here.
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