How Terror Networks Can Be Run From U.S. Prisons
June 12, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
In order to demonstrate the danger of bringing Gitmo terrorists to U.S. prisons, it is useful to go back to September 28, 2007, to a speech given by FBI Director Robert Mueller to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Part of Director Mueller’s point that day was to drive home the interconnectedness of the terror network, and just how little connectivity it takes to operate a worldwide web of terror. Director Miller used what he called “three threads” to illustrate the situation the United States faces every day:
“In April 2005, two college students from Atlanta allegedly traveled to Washington, D.C., to record videos of potential targets, including the Capitol and the World Bank headquarters. One of them subsequently traveled to Pakistan to seek terrorist training.
“The other traveled to Bangladesh to continue his terrorism-related activities. They have since been arrested and indicted on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. That’s one thread.
“Six months later, a Swedish national and a Danish man were arrested in Bosnia. They were found with plastic explosives and were preparing to bomb…Read the rest of this entry
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