U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she is concerned about young Americans who become involved in terrorist plots against the United States. Here comments were made during a gathering of U.S. state governors on Feb. 20.
During the meeting, Napolitano said the government does not have a good handle on how to prevent someone from becoming a violent extremist, reports the Washington Post. She added that the problem needs to be analyzed.
Additionally, President Obama’s Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan said the issue needed to be addressed as a nation. He brought up a case from November 2009 where five young Pakistani men living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., traveled to Pakistan to allegedly seek training from al-Qaida.
At the conference, officials supported outreach efforts by law enforcement agencies to Muslim communities.
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