Author Topic: U.S. revives group to fight homegrown extremists: officials  (Read 377 times)

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.... The group will coordinate cases that involve Americans who may be spurred to violence for political or prejudicial reasons.

It will include representatives of the FBI, the National Security Division of the Justice Department and the Attorney General's Advisory Committee, which includes representatives of federal prosecutors.

Then Attorney General Janet Reno first established such a task force following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, but it was dismantled after the Sept. 11, 2001 hijacked-plane attacks as the agencies turned their attention toward threats from abroad....

http://news.yahoo.com/u-revives-group-fight-homegrown-extremists-officials-155621629.html