HOMEGROWN JIHAD

摘要

For the purposes of this article, Jihadist-inspired terrorism on US soil includes US-based terrorists or foreign terrorists travelling to the United States who are: directly connected to al-Qaeda (AQ) or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP); inspired by national and/or trans-national Jihadist goals as articulated by an AQ, AQAP leader and/or ideology but are unaffiliated with those groups; or inspired by national and/or trans-national Jihadist goals as articulated by an AQ, AQAP leader and/or ideology but ultimately attempted to join another Jihadist group (such as the Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Tayyba (LeT), Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) or al Shabab.