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Date: May 15, 2007 3:30:59 AM PDT
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Subject: Homeland Security Worried About the Enemies at Home
FBI says domestic extremists big threat
By Josh Meyer
Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/
chi-0705120082may13,1,5656742.story?ctrack=3&cset=true
WASHINGTON -- Even as the FBI hails as a major success story its
breakup of an alleged plot by "radical Islamists" to kill soldiers
at Ft. Dix, N.J., federal authorities acknowledge that the case has
underscored a troubling vulnerability in the domestic war on
terrorism.
They say the FBI cannot possibly counter the growing threat posed
by homegrown extremists without the help of two often unreliable
allies.
One is an American public that is prone to averting its attention
from suspicious behavior and often reluctant to get involved. The
other is a small but growing army of informants, some of whom might
be in it for the wrong reasons, such as money, political ax-
grinding or their own legal problems.
Such dependence on amateurs is "not something that we would like.
It's something that we absolutely need," said agent J.P. Weis, who
heads the FBI's Philadelphia field office and the South Jersey
Joint Terrorism Task Force, which conducted the Ft. Dix probe.
Weis and other FBI and Justice Department officials acknowledged
they probably never would have known about the six men and their
alleged plans had it not been for a Circuit City employee who
reported a suspicious video to police. And, they said, an FBI
informant was instrumental in gathering the evidence needed to file
charges against the men by infiltrating their circle for 16 months.
The primary threat now comes from an unknown number of people with
no criminal backgrounds and few if any ties to militants overseas.
In recent years, authorities have arrested about 60 people from the
much larger pool of angry and disaffected people, charging them
with terrorism, according to federal officials. Many of them do not
fit an easily identifiable profile, which also was true of some of
the men arrested last week in and around Cherry Hill, N.J.
Bureau officials conceded they are disappointed that more people
don't come forward with tips. "A lot of times people think that
someone else will report it," Weis said.
The bureau also has spent millions of dollars cultivating paid
informants. But in some cases the FBI has been accused of not
vetting its sources or of allowing them to pressure suspects into
committing illegal acts or even entrapping them.
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune
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