24 Feb 2009

How FBI fears the homegrown terrorist

It seems the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are taking more interest in Somali suicide bombers setting out from the US/UK to blow themselves up in their motherland.

I blogged briefly about this yesterday.

Today’s New York Times has another example – Militants Drew Recruit in US, FBI Says. It is interesting that the FBI thinks Shirwa Ahmed was indoctrinated in Minnesota. In other words, the radicalisation was homegrown.

Far more tentative is the question of whether a militant who returns to the US or UK from Somalia then poses a threat.