Friday, March 13, 2009

Domestic terror threat growing, Senate committee warns

Domestic terror threat growing, Senate committee warns; CNN.Com

There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community, a U.S. Senate committee hearing concluded Wednesday.

The hearing, conducted by the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, focused on the attempted recruitment of young Somali-American men by al-Shabaab, "a violent and brutal extremist (Somali) group" with significant ties to al Qaeda, according to the U.S. State Department.

"Over the last two years, individuals from the Somali community in the United States, including American citizens, have left for Somalia to support and in some cases fight on behalf of al-Shabaab," noted the committee's chairman, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut.


Comment: The drum beat for the police state grows and Lieberman is the drum master.

A simple solution would be to stop immigration from Somalia and begin deportation, rather than as Congress and the former Bush Administration did, which was to increase the number of people allowed into our country.

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