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Possible terror clusters in NE proves my argument
By WDavidStephenson | August 15, 2007
I just got back from doing an interview with New England Cable News that will air later today as part of a piece on reaction to the story Brian Ross broke today on Good Morning America that more than two dozen “clusters” of young Muslim men in the Northeast are under surveillance because they may evolve into terror cells.
I told NECN’s Josh McElveen (Josh did that great expose several months ago on the Federal Protective Services cutbacks) that the news was:
- no surprise to me, because web-savvy young people with a chip on their collective shoulders could learn all they’d need to organize a cell and carry out an attack without — conceivably — ever contacting Al-Qaeda.
- confirmation of my argument that a networked terror threat requires a networked response.
The words of a new NYPD report analyzing the the threat of a repetition of 9/11 and cited by Ross should resonate particularly in New England, because they could have been used to describe the Sons of Liberty and other grassroots groups in our area in 1775: “The threat is real; this is not some bogey man we are creating here. There are individuals who are proselytizing, inciting angry young men to go down this path.”
Back then it was guys such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, and those young men (we put them on stamps now in celebration of their rebelliousness) were called Minutemen. CONTINUED….
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