"Self-radicalized" (2006?)

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"Self-radicalized" is a buzzword that I've heard in relation to the JFK
terror plot. It should go along with the more politically charged "sudden jihad
syndrome."
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_http://www.nypost.com/seven/06032007/postopinion/editorials/caribbean_terror_
editorials_.htm_
(http://www.nypost.com/seven/06032007/postopinion/editorials/caribbean_terror_editorials_.htm)
June 3, 2007 -- The arrest yesterday of what the authorities termed a
"self-radicalized" American citizen and two others in an alleged plot to do
calamitous damage to JFK International Airport and surrounding residential
neighborhoods underscores yet again the overarching threat Islamist terrorism  poses to
America.
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_http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5363721_
(http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5363721)
The police commissioner Ray Kelly was calling Defreitas, "a  self-radicalized
New Yorker."

"He worked and lived in Brooklyn and Queens plotting to betray his adopted
country with a catastrophic attack," said Commissioner Kelly.
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_http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013276.php_
(http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013276.php)

September 24, 2006

House intel committee chair warns of jihadists home-grown in  Europe, puzzles
over lack of al Qaeda links
There are two noteworthy components to this story. One is that the US
government has expressed particular concern about home-grown jihadists in the  West.
The other is how the notion of al Qaeda as the source of jihad ideology  puts
blinders on the policymakers overseeing the "War on Terror." In fact, Rep.
Hoekstra appears to use the name of al Qaeda and "Islamic extremism"
interchangeably in his assessment below, and the result is confusion over where  all
these "self-radicalized terrorists from Europe, with no criminal records and  no
formal links to al Qaeda" are coming from.
>From the _Washington Times_
(http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060922-102253-6149r.htm) : "Hoekstra warns  of European terrorists"
The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on  Intelligence is
warning that "self-radicalized" terrorists from Europe,  with no criminal records
and no formal links to al Qaeda, are quietly  infiltrating the United States
to proselytize, raise money and possibly plan  attacks.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, [Michigan] Republican, said that the United  States has
to quickly adapt to the ever-changing threat if it is going to win  the global
war against Islamic extremism.

Terrorists coming to the United States from Western Europe "are  difficult to
identify because they are self-radicalized," Mr. Hoekstra told  the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI) at a breakfast meeting with reporters  Wednesday.

"They may have no formal association with al Qaeda, no criminal record.
There's nothing in their past to draw the attention of law-enforcement  officials
to the individuals," he said.
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(GOOGLE BOOKS--2006)
_http://books.google.com/books?id=4RWF81DOCUMC&pg=PA110&ots=jtcfV3a4dJ&dq=%22s
elf+radicalized%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=qRkBMng_aCcD5gXPEgNjMjKZ-M0_
(http://books.google.com/books?id=4RWF81DOCUMC&pg=PA110&ots=jtcfV3a4dJ&dq="self+radicalize
d"&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=qRkBMng_aCcD5gXPEgNjMjKZ-M0)
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
_http://groups.google.com/group/MEPForum/browse_thread/thread/c4a89f0a1f315537
/ad59b034d58e5da3?lnk=st&q=%22self+radicalized%22&rnum=42&hl=en#ad59b034d58e5d
a3_
(http://groups.google.com/group/MEPForum/browse_thread/thread/c4a89f0a1f315537/ad59b034d58e5da3?lnk=st&q="self+radicalized"&rnum=42&hl=en#ad59b034d58e5d
a3)
August 25, 2006
But the debate over the attitude towards Hizballah and Iran further  revealed
a new phenomenon within the Jihadis themselves - a generational  conflict
between the "old Al-Qaeda" and its supporting scholars, and the  younger
generations of clerics, operatives, and the self-radicalized followers  and
sympathizers of global  Jihad.






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