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Rep. King Plans To Boost Focus On Counter-Terror Issues In 2012

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, February 10th, 2012

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The House Homeland Security Committee this year will continue to investigate homegrown terrorist radicalization, but will expand its counter-terrorist focus to include threats emanating from other countries and terrorist groups, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the chair of the committee, said yesterday. King’s committee held four hearings last year on radicalization within the Muslim-American community and plans to continue to investigate this issue but he also plans to study the “presence and activities in the United States of Iran’s intelligence services,…

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