Thursday, May 27, 2010

U.S. looks at ways to head off home-grown extremism

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After more than a dozen home-grown terrorist plots involving American Muslims since President Obama took office, the administration is moving to step up its scattershot efforts to counter domestic radicalism, prompting a debate over the proper role of government in addressing ideological threats.

Unlike Britain and other countries in Europe, the U.S. government does not have a national strategy to combat Islamic extremism, and no agency in the vast American national security and intelligence bureaucracy is in charge of understanding and addressing the home-grown threat...

[Gee - where to start? Maybe our >2300 mosques, {some} proven centers of radicalization?]

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