Center for Strategic and International Studies: A Growing Terrorist Threat? Assessing "Homegrown" Extremism in the United States

A Growing Terrorist Threat? Assessing “Homegrown” Extremism in the United States, A Report of the CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, March 2010.

  • “This report probes last fall’s five major cases [of “homegrown” terrorism or extremist violence perpetrated by U.S. legal residents and citizens], situating them within the context of recent U.S. efforts to address domestic radicalization. Our goal is to suggest ways that policymakers might improve on current approaches to homegrown extremism. To begin, we offer brief sketches of each of the events. They differ in important respects, suggesting that there is no simple path to radicalization or common template for a homegrown extremist. Still, a few important similarities among the
    five cases do suggest some directives for policy in this area.”
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