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Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/exclusive-us-st.html
U.S. Studying Two Dozen "Clusters" of Possible Homegrown Muslim Terrorists
[ABC News] Brian Ross, Richard Esposito and Maddy Sauer - U.S. law enforcement officials say they have identified more than two dozen "clusters" of young Muslim men in the northeast U.S. who are on a path that could lead to homegrown terror. "Any one of those clusters may be capable of carrying out a terrorist action that will result in fatalities," said Rand Corporation terrorism expert Brian Jenkins. A new report by the NYPD intelligence division, "Radicalization in the West and the Homegrown Threat," plots "the trajectory of radicalization" and tracks the path of a non-radicalized individual to an individual with the willingness to commit an act of terror. The report cites at least 10 well-known recent cases where authorities have thwarted plots developed either wholly or in a very large part by homegrown "actors" inspired by al-Qaeda.