With all the incidents of "homegrown terrorism" I wonder if we are about to enter another era of looking for "enemies" in all kinds of places. The most recent incident is that with the two who wanted to fly to Egypt and then on to Somalia to join al-Qaeda type groups and kill Americans. The two are Carlos Eduardo Almonte and Mohommed Mahmood Alessa, both of north Jersey. A month ago was the "Times Square Bomber" who was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. Before that incident there was the Fort Hood Army major who killed soldiers there. Before that-a number of years ago-there were the "group of young men, also US citizens raised in NJ, (who) were convicted of plotting to murder soldiers at Fort Dix". If this pattern continues, what will we call it?
(Source: "Web videos offer inspiration to jihadists" by Mike Kelly of The Record on 6/8/10).
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