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Love him or hate him - Congressman Peter King can get press coverage on homeland security better than anyone. On December 7, 2011, he did not fail. The committee he chairs, the House Committee on Homeland Security published a 14 page "investigative report" on the
"Homegrown Terror Threat to Military Communities". So what did he say to land himself in the news again? Oh, I don't know....Perhaps it was this little "gem" found in the report:
"The Committee’s Majority Staff has reason to believe that the actual number of radicalized troops is far more than publicly realized or acknowledged."
That's ironic because the FBI and the ADL have been practically shouting this for quite some time. It appears to me either the Committee is a little behind on the counter-terrorism information or being a tad bit subjective. Imagine - subjectivity in politics.
The report lays out some pretty interesting findings:
• More than five terror plots have been disrupted involving U.S. military insiders in the past decade and at least 11 or more cases involved veterans or those who attempted to join law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The likelihood of another deadly attack by a trusted insider is a severe and emerging threat, which the Pentagon is aggressively investigating to identify perpetrators;
• Two successful attacks against the military outside of Afghanistan and Iraq were perpetrated by radicalized soldiers assigned to U.S.-based Army units: at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait in 2003 and at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009;
• At least 16 external terror plots targeting military personnel stationed inside the U.S. Homeland have been disrupted or investigated;
• At least nine other external plots were thwarted involving U.S. Persons in the homeland who traveled or planned trips overseas to kill G.I.s in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere;
• A growing number of terrorist threats are directed at families of military personnel. Particularly at risk are relatives of troops in units involved in counterterror operations.Here's the report in its entirety (click on the fullscreen adjacent to the download button):
Homegrown Terrorism: The Threat to Military Communities Inside the United States
