I recently attended a briefing by a former NYPD counterterrorism official on the risk to the United States from so-called “Lone Wolf” terror attacks. Generally speaking a “Lone Wolf” is a terrorist who is not a member of any larger international or domestic terrorist organization, who launches a terrorist attack utilizing only what weapons...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Roaches scatter when the lights go on. Hollywood movies have taught us that once the hero has shined a light on the doers of evil, bringing troubling matters to light, the cops swoop in, the bad actors are rounded up, the credits roll, and the camera pans up to...
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America is a nation that was born in religious freedom. As a community,  Jews have found safe harbor and  true emancipation on these shores.  When my father came here, fleeing Nazi Germany, he cried when the ship passed the Statue of Liberty. He and his generation profoundly loved what this country stands for. He...
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The failed cargo bomb plot in Yemen, which occurred just days before the American mid-term elections on November 2, are once again an excellent microcosm of the problems facing America and the West. The bombs were found only after two cargo planes had been intercepted, one in Dubai and one in England, and after...
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It is a part of the US Code of Law, (Title 22, Chapter 39, subchapter III, section2776), that the President of the United States should transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a report that certifies that “any proposed sale or export of...
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Omar Farouq Abdelmutalib is a young Nigerian man, son of an eminent banker and former finance minister, educated in London. He went on to attempt to detonate a complicated chemical explosive device hidden inside his underwear in the skies above Detroit. Nidal Malik Hassan is a psychiatrist nearing middle age, a Major in the...
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four,” writes George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith in 1984. “If that is granted, all else follows.” At around 2:30 pm Eastern Standard Time, Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan (alternately given as Nidal Malik Hasan) entered the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, and allegedly...
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EMET’s Speaker of the Truth for 2009 Walid Phares posts on the Counter-Terrorism Blog today about Taqiyya and the North Carolina Jihadists recently arrested. He makes some excellent points regarding the homegrown jihad. Two key issues raised by Phares need to be highlighted: On 9/11, these jihadists were between the age of 10 and...
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An interesting article from FDD’s Daveed Garenstein-Ross, about the importance of ideology in the radicalization of homegrown terrorists: The study examines several specific manifestations. These include adopting a legalistic interpretation of Islam, coming to trust only select and ideologically rigid religious authorities, perceiving Islam and the West as irreconcilably opposed, manifesting a low tolerance...
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Four African-American Muslim converts were arrested by the FBI in a foiled plot to plant explosives at a synagogue and Jewish Community Center, and to bring down an airplane with a stinger missile (h/t Atlas Shrugs and Israpundit): James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy...
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