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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homegrown-terror-threat-significant-officails/story?id=11699198
Officials: Terror Threat from Americans Is Growing
(ABC News) Jason Ryan and Pierre Thomas - FBI Director Robert Mueller told a congressional hearing Wednesday that the threat from Americans willing to commit terrorist acts is growing. "Groups affiliated with al-Qaeda are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures," Mueller said. "Domestic extremism and radicalization appear to have become more pronounced." "Homegrown terrorists represent a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat," said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "By homegrown, I mean terrorist operatives who are U.S. persons, and who were radicalized in the United States."