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发帖数: 3433 | 1 Within days of the suicide bombing attempt in New York City, the Director of
the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Nicholas Rasmussen said
Wednesday that individuals are radicalized faster than ever before. In the
past, it would takes years for people to become radicalized, but the "array
of information available" has led to radicalization from groups like ISIS to
take place "within weeks
Wednesday's speech was Rasmussen's "exit interview" to national reporters
now that he is leaving the agency, which he has led since 2014. While he did
not specifically address Monday's attack, he used the hour-long speech to
tick through his view of the terrorism landscape across the world and what
is happening domestically.
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When he was asked by a reporter if the anti-Muslim rhetoric coursing through
U.S. politics was hurting counterterrorism efforts, he said "it makes our
work more difficult" and "it increases the level of mistrust" in some
communities.
Also of note, Rasmussen said NCTC is not seeing the flow of ISIS fighters
from Syria into Europe that was anticipated just a couple of years ago in
dire warnings.
"We've now adjusted our view of how much of this we are going to face," he
said.
According to Rasmussen, "thousands of foreign fighters have departed over
the course of the conflict," but "in the last year the outflow has
drastically slowed." Among the factors behind the adjusted assessment, ISIS
is preventing people from leaving and "people are willing to fight and die."
As he leaves NCTC, he said he wishes he had done more to increase efforts
with state and local law enforcement to engage communities to prevent lone
wolf type attacks. He said he believed community-based efforts are key to
stopping individuals from carrying out those types of attacks.
As for the larger-scale catastrophic attacks, he said "we are at far less
risk today" than we were in the aftermath of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
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