Homegrown Terror

In the Tribune yesterday, more detail at HotAir---NYPD on the threat of homegrown terror cells. The NYPD has identified more than two dozen clusters:

The report found homegrown terrorists often were indoctrinated in local "radicalization incubators" that are "rife with extremist rhetoric."

Instead of mosques, those places were more likely to be "cafes, cab driver hangouts, flop houses, prisons, student associations, non-governmental organizations, hookah bars, butcher shops and bookstores," the report says.

City Journal's Judith Miller, who was bounced from the liberal NY Times, did a story on this very issue last month, concerning the efforts of NY and LA law enforcement. Food for thought for Chicago. I imagine the Homeland Security Sec. Chertoff's recent visit here was no coincidence.

UPDATE: In related news, NGO CAIR wants to be removed as an undicted co-conspirator in the Hamas trial in Texas. Powerline fills in the blanks the NY Times, as usual, does not report:

Of course, several officers of CAIR have been convicted of terrorsit activities. Former Holy Land Foundation CEO Ghassan Elashi is already serving an 80-month sentece on terrorism-related charges; he was also the founder of CAIR's chapter in Texas. CAIR chairman Parvez Ahmed is himself a prominent supporter of convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian. CAIR vitally needs to preserve the illusion that it is a civil rights organization consistent with its standing, in the words of the Times, as a prominent Muslim American organization.

In that trial new evidence has emerged showing CAIR attending Hamas meetings.

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