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Events in Boston were moving so quickly on Friday that it's impossible to
draw too many conclusions. But the emergence of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev
as the chief terror suspects who paralyzed a great American city deserves at
least some reflection.
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... The "homegrown" radical threat is really an argument for vigilance,
especially within communities prone to producing terrorists.
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This means surveilling foreign student groups in the U.S., certain immigrant
communities that have produced jihadists, and, yes, even mosques and other
Muslim venues. The key is to be familiar enough with these communities, to know
and be trusted enough by their leaders, so those man and women will alert law
enforcers when someone appears to have become radicalized.
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This offends some civil libertarians, and the Associated Press excoriated the
NYPD for the practice in a series of stories in 2011. In the wake of Boston,
this looks notably misguided. New York's police say they've kept at it, under
appropriate legal safeguards, and we hope they will continue.The U.S. government watches right-wing extremist groups because we know they are dangerous. The police shouldn't refrain from doing the same to Muslim or immigrant groups merely because that is deemed less politically correct. As the week's events in Boston show, the costs of doing otherwise are too high.
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You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323809304578432952673799328.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Note: The above photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was provided by the FBI.
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