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Terrorism
Obama Administration Turns Focus To Homegrown Terrorism
Justin Elliott | June 1, 2010, 3:20PM
Nidal Hasan and Faisal Shahzad
The White House last week declared a new focus on the threat of homegrown terrorism, warning that "several recent incidences of violent extremists in the United States who are committed to fighting here and abroad have underscored the threat to the United States and our interests posed by individuals radicalized at home."
That language is from the Obama Administration's new National Security Strategy, a document (.pdf) that comes out every few years (the last was in 2006) and serves as a broad statement of policy. The document continues: "Our best defenses against this threat are well informed and equipped families, local communities, and institutions."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (40) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Daniel Patrick Boyd, Faisal Shahzad, John Brennan, Najibullah Zazi, Nidal Malik Hasan, Obama Administration, Terrorism, al-Shabaab
Najibullah Zazi
GOPers Who Hit Obama On Xmas Bomber Now Mum On Zazi Guilty Plea
Justin Elliott | February 24, 2010, 11:15AM
Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) and Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
The Republicans who most vociferously blasted the Obama Administration for putting the attempted Christmas bombing suspect through the criminal justice system have apparently been silent on another high-profile terrorism case making its way through the civilian system.
Najibullah Zazi on Monday pleaded guilty in federal court to a plot to detonate explosives in the New York subway system. The government says that Zazi, a legal resident from Afghanistan, got training in 2008 from al Qaeda in Pakistan, and was motivated by anger over civilian deaths in his home country.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (22) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Eric Holder, Kit Bond, Najibullah Zazi, Obama Administration, Pete Hoekstra
Jaish-e-Muhammad
What Were Five American Men Doing At Militant-Linked House In Pakistan?
Justin Elliott | December 10, 2009, 10:30AM
Five young men from Northern Virginia have been arrested in Pakistan in a house with links to a militant group, but they have not been charged with a crime and details of what they were doing are still hard to come by. But the case is already being cited as the latest example in an emerging trend of radicalization of American Muslims who travel overseas and link up with foreign terrorist groups.
Here's the basic outlines of the story, as it has been reported so far: five American Muslim men, ranging in age from their late teens to mid-20s, flew to Pakistan earlier this month and, after bouncing around several cities, ended up in a house in Sargodha, in Punjab Province. The owner of the house where they were arrested reportedly has ties to the group Jaish-e-Muhammad, considered a terrorist organization by the United States.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (16) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: CAIR, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Najibullah Zazi, Nihad Awad, Pakistan, Radicalization, Ramy Zamzam
FBI
Feds: Zazi Bought Beauty Products To Build Bomb
Zachary Roth | September 24, 2009, 12:26PM
Najibullah Zazi
The accused terror plotter indicted this morning by the Feds seems to have spent a lot of time in recent months shopping for beauty and home improvement products.
According to a document filed by prosecutors, the FBI found on the computer of Najibullah Zaz instructions for making explosives, including Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP). That's the explosive that was used by the London train bombers of 2005, and by Richard Reid, the "shoe-bomber," in 2001. It's made from hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and strong acid such as hydrochloric acid.
Topics: FBI, Justice Department, Najibullah Zazi
FBI
Alleged Terror Plotter Indicted
Zachary Roth | September 24, 2009, 11:11AM
Najibullah Zazi
Najibullah Zazi has been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to use a weapons of mass destruction -- explosive bombs -- the Justice Department has announced.
Zazi, who lives outside Denver, had previously been charged with making false statements to investigators, after he was questioned by the FBI in connection to that New York City terror probe.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (16) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: FBI, Justice Department, NYPD, Najibullah Zazi
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