Monday, June 15, 2009

Terrorists win: Born and bred in America, how do you fight an enemy that's within?

"It is being born and bred here on American soil," he said. "The seeds have all been sown over the past few years, between Iraq and Afghanistan on our side, and the increased propaganda and increased jihadi education materials on their side."

SHOOT: Answer, you can't - you have to evangelise them towards a new set of beliefs, and that's not easy. That requires an armyg of evangelists that can give personal attention. This sort of thing is symptomatic of cultural bankruptcy. There are increasingly fewer and fewer structures - urban, civil or political - worth keeping.
clipped from news.yahoo.com
"It's the manifestation of a problem that the counterterrorism community has been worried about all along," said Juan Zarate, a top counterterrorism official in the Bush administration. Their worries center on "a radicalized individual who decides to take matters into his own hands."

Abdulhakim Muhammad, who grew up in Memphis, Tenn., converted to the Islamic faith, changed his name from Bledsoe, and traveled to Yemen in 2007. He was later arrested for overstaying his visa and deported back to the U.S., where he slid quietly into life in Little Rock, Ark., apparently unnoticed by U.S. law enforcement.

FILE - In this June 5, 2009, file photo, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad is seen in
Muhammad, 23, told The Associated Press in a jail cell interview last week that the shootings were an "act for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military."
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