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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924848/posts
‘Mapping’ A Danger
IBD ^ | November 12, 2007
Posted on 11/12/2007 6:24:44 PM PST by Kaslin
Homeland Security: Los Angeles police want to map potential terror hotbeds in the Muslim community, but critics are crying “religious profiling.” Actually, it’s just smart law enforcement.
And it couldn’t come at a better time. The FBI is warning police in Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, that shopping malls there are possible targets of a new al-Qaida plot.
By mapping the local Muslim community, the LAPD would increase its chances of disrupting such plots. Its counterterrorism unit hopes to ID areas that might be more isolated and removed — and therefore riper targets for radicalization and even al-Qaida recruitment.
Shining a spotlight on these neighborhoods would take the terrorists and their facilitators out of the shadows where they prefer to operate.
“We just don’t know enough about the communities,” explains deputy LAPD chief Michael Downing, adding that the planned mapping project “has nothing to do with profiling.”
But predictably, the ACLU has joined CAIR and other Muslim groups in denouncing the move.
“The mapping of Muslim communities seems premised on the faulty notion that Muslims are more likely to commit violent acts than people of other faiths,” the ACLU complained.
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November 13, 2007
“Russia: Feds Shoot Up and Shut Down Dagestan Jihad Group”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Russian Special Forces destroyed eight members of Buinaksky Jamaat, a group of devout Muslims seeking to establish Islamic rule in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “On Monday they were caught in their hideout, a private residence, in an elite district of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. This fact has authorities concerned that Islamic jihad has supporters among the wealthy and elite in the region.
Officials say the devout Muslims were planning to take hostage a nearby school shortly before New Year’s, which is the most important holiday in Russia. In September 2004 devout Muslims seized a school in Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, and massacred 360 hostages out of a total of about 1200.”
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http://newsru.com/russia/13nov2007/band.html