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"New Report Cites Growing Threat of Homegrown Terror"
Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins
Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Press Release
May 08, 2008
“WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., warned Thursday that the threat of homegrown terrorism is on the rise, aided by the Internet’s capacity to spread the core recruitment and training message of violent Islamist terrorist groups.
At a morning press conference to release the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff report, “Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat,” the Senators said that as the threat of homegrown terrorism evolves, so too should the government’s response, which must include coordinated and comprehensive strategic communications and outreach efforts." MORE>>>>
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The Committee on the Present Danger is a non-partisan organization with one goal – to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.
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The "danger" we face – which was "present" well before most Americans realized it on September 11, 2001 – is the determination of militant Islamists to impose their totalitarian views on, first, the Muslim world, and, then, the world at large.
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