Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[AdamG]

From the Memory Hole, some perspective -

the deadliest school-related massacre in American history happened in 1927, at an elementary school in Bath, Mich. A school board member named Andrew Kehoe, upset over a burdensome property tax, wired the building with dynamite and set it off in the morning of May 18. Kehoe’s actions killed 45 people, 38 of whom were children.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/201..._american.html

[AdamG]

The FBI has issued a nationwide warning about a possible attack against law enforcement on Halloween night.
CBS News reports that according to the warning, members of a group known as the National Liberation Militia may be planning to dress up in Halloween costumes and create incidents that would cause a police response. Members who would also be carrying bricks and guns would then ambush police as part of what the group calls a “Halloween Revolt,” the alert reportedly said.

Read More: FBI warning: Halloween terror threat targets police | http://nj1015.com/fbi-warning-hallow...ckback=tsmclip

[davidbfpo]

From the START consortium of researchers a short, two page summary of their research and their overview states, with my emphasis in bold:

This research brief presents the preliminary results of 25 years of ideological victimization committed by al-Qa’ida and affiliated movements and the extremist far-right in the United States from 1990 to 2014. For a full copy of the report, visit START’s website. Very little is known about victimization patterns, especially across ideologies, as researchers in terrorism and extremist violence tend to focus on perpetrator motives and typologies. Victim and target centered research provides a nuanced perspective of these violent events that can help mitigate victimization risk. Excluding the homicide victims associated with the four attacks on September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, 62 individuals were killed in 38 ideologically motivated homicide events committed by extremists associated with al-Qa’ida and affiliated movements and 245 were killed by far-right extremists (FRE) in 177 ideologically motivated incidents.The data for this brief originates from the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), an open-source dataset that examines ideologically motivated and routine criminal activity, both violent and financial, committed by ideological extremists.

Link:https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START..._March2016.pdf

[AdamG]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?*

Check out the neck tats.

OXNARD, Calif. -- A man faces charges of creating a chemical weapon capable of creating a gas the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies as "immediately dangerous to life or health considerations" in a Walmart store here, CBS Los Angeles reports.


Martin Reyes, 31, was questioned Tuesday in connection with a report of having a possible improvised chemical weapon at the store the morning of June 18, says Oxnard police Sgt. Mike Gregson said.

The store was evacuated for about six hours until a hazmat team rendered the device safe.

A month-long investigation identified Reyes as the suspect. Reyes, who was in custody at Ventura County Main Jail on an unrelated charge, confessed to manufacturing and placing the chemical weapon inside the store, Gregson said.

The main said he researched how to do it on the Internet, Gregson added.

* Yes, I know that applies to 50% of the news we're interested in these days but seriously, com'n this guy is special.

(Added by Mod) Link:http://abc7.com/news/oxnard-man-arre...lmart/1436118/