May 24, 2017
Peter Bergen wrote for CNN about homegrown terror:
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners.This explains, in part, why Donald Trump is now President. He advocated a seemingly commonsensical approach to the terrorism problem during his presidential campaign, which was to ban Muslim immigration, including refugees.But, in reality, every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident.That's what makes the news that the terrorist who carried out the Manchester attack, Salman Abedi -- the son of Libyan migrants who was born and grew up in the United Kingdom -- unsurprising.