Young? Educated? Opposed to the Iraq war? NYPD thinks you might be a terrorist

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:04 AM EDT

Article Source: Bloomberg.com

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The risk posed by homegrown Islamic terrorists in the U.S. and other western countries is at least as great as from those who get their start in the Middle East, according to a New York Police Department report.

The report released today concludes that most terrorists begin as ``unremarkable'' people in ``ordinary jobs,'' and respond to real or perceived economic injustices, or opposition to the Iraq war. Many are from educated and privileged backgrounds and are searching for identity and a cause, the report said.

``While the threat from overseas remains, many of the terrorist attacks or thwarted plots against cities in Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S. have been conceptualized and planned by local residents,'' Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a lower Manhattan press conference today. ``This study attempts to look at how that intention forms, hardens and leads to an attack.''

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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 terrorist 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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The report found that homegrown terrorists often were indoctrinated in local "radicalization incubators" that are "rife with extremist rhetoric."

Instead of mosques, those places were more likely to be "cafes, cab driver hangouts, flop houses, prisons, student associations, non- governmental organizations, hookah bars, butcher shops and bookstores," the report says.

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