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FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate Homeland Security Committee that groups and individuals inspired by al-Qaeda are switching to smaller scale attacks.
Points to consider: According to Director Mueller, these attacks are easier to plan and carry out, involve fewer people, can be put together more quickly, and are more difficult to detect and disrupt. "Groups affiliated with al-Qaeda are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures," FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Consider that in his book “Leaderless Jihad”, Dr. Marc Sageman, a former CIA officer, argues that, "the present threat has evolved from a structured group of al-Qaeda masterminds controlling vast resources and issuing commands to a multitude of informal groups trying to emulate their predecessors by conceiving and executing operations from the bottom up. These “homegrown wannabes” form a scattered global network, a “leaderless jihad." Once they have been recruited, indoctrinated and prepared, their lust for "martyrdom" which permeates the middle and lower levels of al-Qaeda make those terrorists difficult to deter..
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