Ex-Convicts from U.S. Said to Join Yemen Radicals -Scott Shane
A new report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that as many as 36 American Muslims who converted to Islam in prison have moved to Yemen and may have joined extremist groups there.
The report warns that Americans recruited in Yemen or Somalia may pose a particular threat, since they can operate freely inside the U.S.
Three American Muslims were convicted for a 2005 plot to attack Jewish institutions and military bases around Los Angeles that was said to have been concocted inside New Folsom Prison, near Sacramento. Michael Finton, who converted to Islam while imprisoned, was charged last year with trying to blow up the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill. Four former New York state prisoners, at least two of whom converted to Islam in prison, were accused last year of plotting to attack synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes.
(New York Times)
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A new report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that as many as 36 American Muslims who converted to Islam in prison have moved to Yemen and may have joined extremist groups there.
The report warns that Americans recruited in Yemen or Somalia may pose a particular threat, since they can operate freely inside the U.S.
Three American Muslims were convicted for a 2005 plot to attack Jewish institutions and military bases around Los Angeles that was said to have been concocted inside New Folsom Prison, near Sacramento. Michael Finton, who converted to Islam while imprisoned, was charged last year with trying to blow up the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill. Four former New York state prisoners, at least two of whom converted to Islam in prison, were accused last year of plotting to attack synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes.
(New York Times)
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3 comments:
One has to look on what is going on in the prisons....
I recall an article some time ago about the Muslim clergy in prisons often having radical views. Is that what you're referring to?
One has to wonder what is happening that prisoners can be turned that way, and just who is doing the turning, and why this is going on in our prisons.
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