NYPD study warns of mounting threat by homegrown terrorists

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/15/nypd_study_warns_of_mounting_threat_by_homegrown_terrorists/

NEW YORK --They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.

New York Police Department intelligence analysts have concluded those were some of the telltale signs of homegrown terrorists in the making -- a mounting threat as grave as that from established terror groups like al-Qaida.

An NYPD report released Wednesday warns of a "radicalization" process in which young men -- otherwise unremarkable legal immigrants from the Middle East -- grow disillusioned with life in America and adopt a philosophy that puts them on the path to jihad.

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1. Wait a minute --

I prefer book stores and hookah bars to mosques!

I stopped wearing baseball caps and -- yes -- grew a beard!

GASP!

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2. Holy Xenophobia and Racism!

Next thing they're just going to start rounding up "otherwise unremarkable immigrants from the Middle East" and carting them off to concentration camps.

This is some sick shit.

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3. That's why we're fighting them over there

And we can't leave because then they'll follow us!

Er, um, yeah, that's how it is supposed to work.

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4. Slike this, the detention centers cannot be justified unless there is

something to put in them. Enter the homegrowns. BTW, if you haven't visited the Jagermeister website, I suggest you check it out, it is a fine piece of work and it explains the history behind Jagermeister, which I must say is interesting indeed.

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5. the Failing Agenda continues

its a mess

looks like War with Iran is still in the cards

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6. Add this to the "congestion" plan that is meant to track everyone who drives

in midtown by photographing license places and charging a fee. Then I recently read an article that additional money would go to more aggressive cops.

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132007/news/regionalnews/iccing_the_cops_regionalnews_larry_celona.htm

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7. Yet the FBI and DHS don't agree.

How much did the NYPD get to publish this POS. It's just another attempt to attack the Internet.
The Internet is very dangerous to the powers that be. It gives us a voice to fight these extremists with. Strange how this report makes no mention of the hate that is spewed on talk radio by the right wing. :eyes:

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8. Yaas, us "unremarkable" males are the prime enemy!!1 n/t