Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Study: Little Evidence of US Jihadists

The Center on Law and Security at NYU has released a study which "suggests the presence of few, if any, prevalent terrorist threats currently within the U.S." Of 510 "anti-terror" arrests made, only 158 lead to terrorism prosecutions. And of those, there have only been 4 convictions, including Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid.
"The vast majority of cases turn out to include no link to terrorism once they go to court," the report found. The analysis "suggests the presence of few, if any, prevalent terrorist threats currently within the U.S."

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