Effective Police Work, Lack of Local Muslim Support Limit Danger From Homegrown Jihadists in America - RAND.org

Effective intelligence gathering and a Muslim community unsympathetic to calls to violence have discouraged homegrown jihadist terrorism in the United States, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation.

There is no terrorist-prone personality and no real way to predict who will become a jihadist, according to the study. All but two of the U.S.-based perpetrators have been men, and nearly all of them have been Muslims or Muslim converts. But those are the only traits that nearly all of them have in common.

The study, "Would-Be Warriors: Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States since September 11, 2001," can be found at www.rand.org.

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