Far right domestic terrorism on par with foreign threat, experts say

[UrbScotty]

The threat of domestic terrorist attacks in the United States similar to last week's fatal bombing and assault in Norway is significant and growing, analysts said Monday.

The greatest threat of large-scale attacks come from individuals and small groups of extremists who subscribe to radical Islamic or far right-wing ideologies, said Gary LaFree, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START.

While extremist animal rights and environmental groups also pose threats, those groups either have not tended to seek to kill or have only targeted individuals, according to researchers.

But extremist right-wingers -- from Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to a neo-Nazi accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Day parade this year -- have shown a willingness to target the public, LaFree said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/25/domestic.extremism/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

[Uncle Joe]

1. Self-delete due to technical error. n/t

[xocet]

2. I wonder if they have considered far-right financial terrorism.... n/t

[Uncle Joe]

3. I wonder, why do the extremist right wingers hate America?

Do they hate us for our freedoms?

Thanks for the thread, UrbScotty.

[salin]

4. uh oh... teabaggers and their ilk are going to start demonizing CNN

for running this story.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The far right wants "freedom" for themselves only.