Justice Department Creates New Position to Focus on Threats of Homegrown Extremism
The rising threat of homegrown extremism has prompted the Justice Department to create a new position to coordinate investigations.
The rising threat of homegrown extremism has prompted the Justice Department to create a new position to coordinate investigations.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Homegrown terrorists just keep popping up. The FBI on Tuesday night arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man, Shaker Masri, an American citizen, who allegedly had plans to travel to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and become a suicide bomber, authorities said. Masri, who lived in the…
This is an interesting twist in the drug war. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out and how the Mexican Cartels react. Then again, this won’t put the cartels out of business. They seem to be doing fine financially. By Steve Fainaru and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service ARCATA, Calif. —…