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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Why terrorist bombings have been rare in U.S. in past decade"
Why terrorist bombings have been rare in U.S. in past decadeBy Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, and Jennifer Rowland, Special to CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/opinion/bergen-bombings/index.html?sr=reddit
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Washington (CNN) -- It's too early to tell who is responsible for Monday's bombings in Boston. Yet after an incident like this, everyone is looking to find out who did it and why.
One possible guide is recent history: In the years since the 9/11 attacks, dozens of extremists have plotted to use explosives to further their causes in the United States.
Of the 380 individuals indicted for acts of political violence or for conspiring to carry out such attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, 77 were able to obtain explosives or the components necessary to build a bomb, according to a count by the New America Foundation.
Of those, 48 were right-wing extremists, 23 were militants inspired by al Qaeda's ideology, five have been described as anarchists and one was an environmentalist terrorist.
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"Why terrorist bombings have been rare in U.S. in past decade" (Original Post)
applegrove
Apr 2013
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. Link is weird, leads to posting a thread in DU.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)2. Sorry. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)3. Interesting article, thank you.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. So 63% were Right Wing Extremists....
hmmmm?
Or should I say 70% were not Islamic terrorists.