The “Mapping” program was shelved on November 15 during a meeting between the LAPD Chief William Bratton and Muslim leaders. However, many Muslims doubt that the program has been scrapped but put off for the time being as other factors suggest.
Mueller’s Congressional TestimonyMaintaining the theme of radicalization, Robert S. Mueller, FBI Director, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Sept. 10, 2007: “…we also have a problem with homegrown radicalization inside the United States.” However, he added, “the level and intensity of extremism inside the United States does not equal that in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe.”
Not surprisingly, the testimonies and studies on the “war on terror” are silent on the critical issue: What causes the so-called radicalization or anti-American sentiments? Surely, these are the US global policies, particularly in the Muslim world (Afghanistan and Iraq wars), which are causing anti-American sentiments.
Los Angeles Times recently published a report card for the so-called Global War on Terror by Law professors David Cole of Georgetown University and Jules Lobel of the University of Pittsburg. The two professors did not issue a grade per-se, but instead laid out the costs of pursuing such a tenuous strategy, while questioning whether the Bush administration can actually be credited with success. According to Cole and Lobel, while it is true the U.S. has not experienced another terrorist attack since September 11, acts of terror worldwide have increased from 1,732 in 2001 to 6,659 in 2006.
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