Homegrown Terrorists – America Faces The Enemies Within

from National Terror Alert

For too long we as Americans have been complacent to believe that the threat of homegrown jihad terrorism is gravest elsewhere, but looking at recent events, one can easily see that the threat here is growing and it’s time to take it seriously.

The NY Daily news reports on the growth and danger of homegrown terrorism
Case history documents how terrorists can fade into the fabric of the country’s pluralistic population and how easily they can fashion explosives out of readily available products.

Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu was charged Thursday with attempting to join a Pakistani-based Al Qaeda affiliate in hopes of killing U.S. troops.

Jordanian Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday in Dallas for putting what he believed was a car bomb in an office-tower garage.

Michael Finton, a 29-year-old Illinois man who idolized American Taliban John Walker Lindh, was arrested Wednesday on charges of plotting to bomb a federal courthouse.

Long Islander Bryant Neal Vinas was busted in July for allegedly training with Al Qaeda in Pakistan, joining rocket attacks on U.S. forces and giving “expert advice” on the subways and Long Island Rail Road.

Three U.S. citizens and a Haitian immigrant were charged in May with conspiring to plant 37 pounds of explosive at two Bronx synagogues.

Three illegal-immigrant brothers from Macedonia were sentenced in April to life for plotting in 2007 to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J.

Zazi, who was born in Afghanistan, ran a Manhattan doughnut cart. That’s how law-abiding, hardworking and, yes, normal, he seemed even as, probers believe, his heart beat as an engine of mass destruction.