President Trump & Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[davidbfpo]

Citing Adam G:

One week after the FBI raided a Dearborn home in the middle of the night, a new terrorism case surfaced in New York on Thursday involving two men....were arrested a week ago and charged with training and working on behalf of Hizballah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization based in Lebanon.

Is this the first case for violent action, as distinct from fund raising etc for actions elsewhere, 'on behalf' of Hezbollah? Just curious; if it is surely this would be very significant?

[Azor]

Citing Adam G:

Is this the first case for violent action, as distinct from fund raising etc for actions elsewhere, 'on behalf' of Hezbollah? Just curious; if it is surely this would be very significant?

Yet from 2014 to the end of 2016, the U.S. ignored Hezbollah in Syria, and partnered with its affiliates in Iraq.

[Azor]

Citing Adam G:

Is this the first case for violent action, as distinct from fund raising etc for actions elsewhere, 'on behalf' of Hezbollah? Just curious; if it is surely this would be very significant?

See here (October 2016) from Brookings: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/marka...united-states/

See here (March 2012) from the former House Homeland Security Chairman: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/hundreds-soldiers-hezbollah-inside-us-says-homeland-security-chairman

[davidbfpo]

As the UK security agencies wrestle with post-attack assessments of where they went wrong with known suspects rated as not posing a threat a reminder that the FBI has ye to explain what it did over Mateen, the loner responsible for the Orlando night club massacre, on June 12th 2016.

Citing a former FBI agent:

Did law enforcement do a great job and were they heroes, or were they bumbling, inept dopes? Almost impossible to make the call unless you see the record. Who knew what, and what did they know? The next step is more difficult. What could we do differently? Well, because of the lack of transparency, we don’t know what we did wrong.

The penultimate passage:

Whatever flaws in the FBI assessment process that allowed Mateen not to be designated a threat last year, they likely still exist today.

Link:https://theintercept.com/2017/06/12/...rism-failures/

[davidbfpo]

This article popped up yesterday via Twitter IIRC and comes from an advocacy group on gun control - which I've not seen before - and is useful as it provides some options to prevent violence.

The title is:Anger Is the Shared Fuel of Mass Shooters and Everyday Murderers. Here’s What Might Stop Both; The post-Orlando debate is overlooking policies and programs that can prevent rage from boiling over into gun violence.
Link:https://www.thetrace.org/2016/06/ang...ce-prevention/
It is also appropriate after yesterday's shooting @ Alexandria, where the suspect appears to be an angry loner.