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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Homegrown Terror On The Rise In 2009

The five young Americans accused last week of traveling from Washington to Pakistan to wage jihad cap what appears to be a record year for homegrown terror plots, exposing a dangerous trend that experts say poses the biggest challenge America's security officials have ever faced.

Not including the Pakistan case, the Rand Corporation says that of the nearly 30 homegrown terror plots uncovered in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, 10 surfaced in this year alone, including two actual attacks — in Little Rock, Ark. and Fort Hood, Texas.

That puts "the level of activity in 2009 much higher than that of previous years," Rand Senior Adviser Brian Jenkins told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last month.

Full Article: HERE

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thats what happens when you put an American hating Muslim in charge of the country.

Anonymous said...

We will see more and more efforts in the media to make us the terrorists. Anything to justify the police state.

Anonymous said...

The government knows we will rebel against unconstitutional laws and violations of the Bill of Rights. They are prepping the police to view us as the enemy.