Lessons from arrest of DC transit cop
August 04, 2016, 12:30 pm
By Erroll Southers
Terror suspects have no set profile, no race and no static ideology or hard line prescribed set of beliefs. Those are some of the lessons learned in the immediate aftermath of the arrest of Nicholas Young, a Washington, D.C. Metro Transit police officer charged with conspiring to aid ISIS.
From what we know, Young’s beliefs were mixed. He had obvious sympathies toward ISIS and its brand of radical Islam. But it has also been reported that Young collected Nazi memorabilia and had a German eagle tattoo on his neck, evidencing some affinity for a right-wing ideology. Homegrown extremist threat mirrors the demographic and the diversity of beliefs in any country. Indeed, ideologies are not even mutually exclusive; one can simultaneously embrace a hybrid of views.
It is similar to what was discovered about Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had embraced right-wing and white supremacist propaganda before his attack.
... Radicalization is never a straight path; it is a meandering road littered with a collection of ideas, emotions, questions of identity, frustrations, and often, psychological issues. Young told an informant that he had tortured animals when he was young, a major red flag for deep psychological problems ...
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