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U.S. Concerned by Threat of Domestic Extremists

   VOA News 21 February 2010

   U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says authorities are
   becoming  more  concerned  about  American citizens or legal residents
   becoming involved in terrorist plots against the United States.
   Speaking  Sunday in Washington to a gathering of U.S. state governors,
   Napolitano said law enforcement officials do not have good methods for
   preventing people from becoming violent extremists.
   In one recent case, five young Pakistani men who lived in the northern
   Virginia  suburbs of Washington, D.C., traveled to Pakistan where they
   allegedly attempted to join militant Islamist groups.
   In  a  separate incident, an Afghan-born resident of the western state
   of  Colorado was arrested last year and charged with conspiring to use
   weapons of mass destruction.
   Officials  at  the meeting of U.S. governors endorsed outreach efforts
   by law enforcement agencies to Muslim communities.

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