Study: U.S. citizens craft most post-9/11 plots

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Study: U.S. citizens craft most post-9/11 plots
By Rachel Zoll - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jan 6, 2010 12:11:25 EST

A study released Wednesday of American Muslims and homegrown terror found that most of the publicly known cases since the Sept. 11 attacks involved young men who were U.S.-born or naturalized citizens. More than half of the suspects were radicalized as part of a group.

The analysis by researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found the accused were almost evenly divided in terms of ethnicity.

Although Arabs formed the largest group of suspects, their numbers were only slightly higher than African-Americans, South Asians, Somalis and whites. About one-third were converts to Islam.

The statistics were part of a report, “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans,” that aimed to learn why American Muslims seem less prone to extremism than Muslims in Europe and elsewhere.

The researchers concluded that American Muslim self-policing has helped stem radicalization.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_terrorism_american_muslims_010610/