title:
A report of the CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism program
title:
A growing terrorist threat? : assessing "homegrown" extremism in the United States
creator:
Nelson, Rick.
contributor:
Bodurian, Ben
publisher:
Center for Strategic and International Studies
date:
Record modified: 2011-09-08
date:
Record created: 2010-04-06
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Modified: Thu Mar 04 07:13:55 EST 2010
date:
Issued: 2010
description:
Harvested from http://csis.org/files/publication/100304_Nelson_GrowingTerroristThreat_Web.pdf on April 6, 2010.; "March 2010."; Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 15, 2010).; Includes bibliographical references.
description:
Extent: vi, 14 p. : digital, PDF file.
description:
Abstract: The five "cases" discussed in this paper, which were part of a larger trend of heightened domestic extremism during 2009, proved so unsettling, in part, because they seemed to contradict much of the recent thinking concerning radicalization and terrorism in the United States. Both policymakers and the public have tended to classify extremist violence as a problem with origins outside the United States. As this report shows, the acceleration of domestic extremism poses a number of serious considerations for U.S. policymakers and officials in charge of counterterrorism and homeland security. Given the United States' largely effective post-9/11 efforts to prevent foreign terrorist infiltration, these sorts of homegrown recruits may represent the best chance for al Qaeda and other global terrorist organizations to launch a major attack in the United States. Of course, would-be domestic extremists need not acquire training abroad to inflict substantial harm at home, as the Fort Hood shootings revealed. The threats posed by homegrown extremism, then -- even if not widespread -- demand a close examination.
subject:
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security.; Domestic terrorism--United States--Prevention.; Domestic terrorism--Government policy--United States.; Radicalism--United States.
relation:
OCLC No.: 554944753
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Reader.
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application/pdf
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Text
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PDF-1.6
source:
http://csis.org/files/publication/100304_Nelson_GrowingTerroristThreat_Web.pdf
language:
eng
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