09-12-2015, 11:02 AM
Yeah, that's true -- the homegrown lone-wolf attacks are definitely a growing threat, Cars. Moreso nowadays, in my opinion, than another foreign-based terrorist network pulling off something like 9 / 11 again.
With only a homemade pressure-cooker bomb, for example, two self-radicalized Islamic extremists (the Tsarnaev brothers) were able to kill several innocent people and maim hundreds of others.
I know the NSA and Department of Homeland Security are constantly trying to identify and quash terrorist individuals and small groups here before they strike, and several U.S. citizens/residents have been arrested for pledging allegiance to ISIS on-line. It's tricky to do that job successfully without compromising privacy rights in the process.
No doubt, national security agencies in the U.S. (and the rest of the world) really have their hands full with the new breed of terrorists hiding in plain sight within our own borders.
With only a homemade pressure-cooker bomb, for example, two self-radicalized Islamic extremists (the Tsarnaev brothers) were able to kill several innocent people and maim hundreds of others.
I know the NSA and Department of Homeland Security are constantly trying to identify and quash terrorist individuals and small groups here before they strike, and several U.S. citizens/residents have been arrested for pledging allegiance to ISIS on-line. It's tricky to do that job successfully without compromising privacy rights in the process.
No doubt, national security agencies in the U.S. (and the rest of the world) really have their hands full with the new breed of terrorists hiding in plain sight within our own borders.