DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat

[JohnR! 5,495]

All of which are part of Obama's plan to destroy America!!!!

If that were the goal, wouldn't it be more prudent to focus on the improving economy, rising home sales, the stock exchange reaching new highs almost daily and the falling unemployment rate? Funny how you right wingers love to slam Obama for his so called failed policies, yet all of what I listed is true. Doesn't sound like failed policies to me, it sounds more like improvement and success.

[Teddy B 17,252]

All of which are part of Obama's plan to destroy America!!!!

It's no wonder the letters NJ come after RW, the mindset is completely nuts. Success = Failure if it's not our guy.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Wonderful and innocent Christian children:

[Teddy B 17,252]

Fixed.

[decocker 7,198]

Wonderful and innocent Christian children:

such hypocrisy. you're perfectly cool with nuking wonderful and innocent muslim children.

[decocker 7,198]

That remains to be see. From what I've heard so far, they became more radicalized after moving here. The older brother hooked up with a radical cleric and it all went downhill from there. It also appears the Mother harbored a deep seeded hatred for the US as well.

that's what i thought.

the common link here is a deep seeded hatred. some of those among us harbor that for anyone outside their mindset all while believing they are the pinnacle of american patriotism.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

You can tell when it's getting really bad for the emperor if CNN actually publishes something that was not cleared by eric too racist to holdem.

Nonsense about terrorism's 'root causes'

(CNN)The Obama administration this week hosted a three-day conference on "Countering Violent Extremism," which is a government euphemism for how best to deal with Islamist terrorism.

Already a predictable tsunami of nonsense has washed over us about the "root causes" of terrorism. We have heard from Obama administration officials and even the President himself that terrorism has something to do with lack of opportunities and poverty. Obama said on Wednesday that "we have to address grievances terrorists exploit, including economic grievances."

He said, "when millions of people -- especially youth -- are impoverished and have no hope for the future, when corruption inflicts daily humiliations on people, when there are no outlets by which people can express their concerns, resentments fester. The risk of instability and extremism grow. Where young people have no education, they are more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and radical ideas..."

The President did acknowledge that terrorists can be rich like Osama bin Laden, who was the son of a Saudi construction magnate who attended the top high school and the best university in Saudi Arabia. It's hard to imagine someone with more opportunities. Think the Trump family Saudi-style, minus the bling, and throw in a deep admiration for the Taliban.

But in fact Osama bin Laden is more the rule than the exception. Take Mohamed Atta, the son of an Egyptian lawyer, who had worked on a doctorate in, of all things, urban preservation at a German university and who led the 9/11 attacks. Or the present leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, a surgeon who comes from a leading Egyptian family that counts ambassadors, politicians and prominent clerics amongst its ranks.

Nearer to home we can also point to the Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was not only an officer in the U.S. Army and a psychiatrist, but is also from a comfortably middle-class family in Virginia.

Let's also add to the mix Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square on May 1, 2010. He had obtained an MBA in the United States and had worked as a financial analyst for the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company. His father was one of the top officers in the Pakistani military.

These are not the dispossessed. They are the empowered.

"Who becomes a terrorist?" turns out, in many cases, to be much like asking, "Who owns a Volvo?"

Indeed, New America has studied the backgrounds of some 250 U.S.-based militants since 9/11 who have been indicted in or convicted of some kind of jihadist terrorist crime. They are on average middle class, reasonably well-educated family men with kids. They are, in short, ordinary Americans.

Similarly, in his important 2004 book "Understanding Terror Networks," psychiatrist Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer, examined the backgrounds of 172 militants who were part of al Qaeda or a similar group. Just under half were professionals; two-thirds were either middle or upper class and had gone to college; indeed, several had doctorates.

In a 2006 study, Swati Pandey and this author examined the educational background of 79 terrorists responsible for five of the worst anti-Western terrorist attacks of the modern era -- the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002, and the London bombings on July 7, 2005.

We found that more than half of the terrorists had attended college, making them as well-educated as the average American. Two of our sample had doctoral degrees, and two others had begun working toward their doctorates.

None of them had attended a madrassa.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/opinion/bergen-terrorism-root-causes/index.html

[decocker 7,198]

is it just me that questions the integrity of a study that looks at 'who becomes a terrorist' by including examples where the cia did all the 'empowering'. not a good way of determining how these things occur on their own..

[Merrytooth 5,748]

That remains to be see. From what I've heard so far, they became more radicalized after moving here. The older brother hooked up with a radical cleric and it all went downhill from there. It also appears the Mother harbored a deep seeded hatred for the US as well.

Why deep seeded hatred for US?

Why came to US and applied for asylum if you hated US so much.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat

It is true. They have all the guns, and they are whack. I try to humor them, in hopes they will not slaughter me when the orders come out of that bunker located in some western desert region to kill all the hippies and other undesirables. All I know is that the headquarters in located in an area populated with flying monkeys liberated from the Nazi's and frequented by lizard alien "visitor's".

[ready4ONE 5,400]

70% of Americans are sovereign citizens? No wonder ExPat thinks he is speaking to the masses with his frequent Obama tirades.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Why deep seeded hatred for US?

Why came to US and applied for asylum if you hated US so much.

The Mother fled the US a few years before the bombing took place, she's wanted here on a bunch of different charges. The Tsarnaevs have stated that they originally came here to ride the welfare system and get whatever they can here for free.

[khwaidee1 196]

The Mother fled the US a few years before the bombing took place, she's wanted here on a bunch of different charges. The Tsarnaevs have stated that they originally came here to ride the welfare system and get whatever they can here for free.

I've never understood the immigrants that come here and have a "deep seated" hatred of the United States. Why exert the effort to come here then? And, last time I checked, nothing preventing them from leaving. There are a few million of our southern neighbors who risk their lives to come here, work their butts off and some do quite well. If you have ever been to a swearing in ceremony of naturalized citizens you will see that there are many people who love the freedoms and opportunities that we have to offer, despite our shortcomings.

[Teddy B 17,252]

I've never understood the immigrants that come here and have a "deep seated" hatred of the United States. Why exert the effort to come here then? And, last time I checked, nothing preventing them from leaving. There are a few million of our southern neighbors who risk their lives to come here, work their butts off and some do quite well. If you have ever been to a swearing in ceremony of naturalized citizens you will see that there are many people who love the freedoms and opportunities that we have to offer, despite our shortcomings.

I would imagine a good amount of the hatred is based in jealousy of what people have here. There are many people who feel they are owed these things simply for breathing. Even the poorest of lives in the US is better than those in many other countries. They despise the people who have what is nearly impossible for them to obtain. I'm sure a lot of the hatred is also based on the US foreign policies abroad that make these people feel like the US is using them for it's own gain, which in some cases it is.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

I simply think that US citizenship is given out too easily and cheaply.

And there is even fee waiver if you can't afford the fees.