U.S. seen vulnerable to radicalised immigrants

[AlphaCentauri]

A Pakistani-American's failed bid to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square is bound to raise fears that the United States is just as vulnerable to violence from immigrants as other Western countries.

Attacks on London's transport system in 2005 by four young suicide bombers, three of them of Pakistani descent, highlighted the danger of radicalisation among alienated young men from down-at-heel immigrant neighbourhoods in bleak British cities.

But there has been a sense that Pakistani immigrants to the United States were much better off economically and much more assimilated than migrants in Britain, and were thus far less likely to try to launch attacks at home.

That assumption will be shaken by Faisal Shahzad who was born in Pakistan, studied in the United States and became a naturalised U.S. citizen last year, Pakistani analysts said.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48250920100505?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

[Kalun D]

1. Be vewy vewy afwaid

the terror boogie man is coming to get you

nevermind the chance of dying from terror is 100 times as rare as lighting

the MIMC needs an excuse to get all the sheeple afraid so they will support their wars for oil

[greencharlie]

2. well...

fortunately there aren't many other ethnic groups on the planet that we, as a nation... can make HATE us enough to grow terrorists.

We've done an EXCELLENT job with the Middle East and the Muslims. Maybe we can start blowing up Hindu neighborhoods until Hindu's start killing people too?

:sarcasm:

USA! USA! USA!

[jtuck004]

3. Or even radicalized ex-army natives from New York...

I wonder if the person who wrote that article understands that the presumption of poverty on the part of radicals has been dead since Oklahoma City, and 9/11.

Or maybe they just needed a free lance writing assignment ;) The econonomy is tight....