The Takeaway is continuing its coverage of the foiled New York City terror plot. Four men were arrested in an alleged plot to bomb two synagogues in New York City and shoot down military planes in Newburgh, N.Y. According to law enforcement officers, the plan was "aspirational" -- that is, it wasn't close to being realized. How did operatives infiltrate the group and quash their plans? And how did they decide when to bust the would-be bombers? To help answer those questions we turn to Bob Hennelly, a reporter at WNYC, and to Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at the
RAND corporation.
More of The Takeaway's coverage of the terror plot:
A Terror Plot in New York City
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The statistic concerning recitivism is not only vague concerning the behavior of these people after release, but it glosses over the assumption that these people's involvement with terrorism is what got them into the prison to start with. It is possible that some of these people were not terrorists before, but their experience at Gitmo made them terrorists.
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