periodic attacks diplomats, companies and other soft targets or resort to kidnapping and other criminal enterprises to fund their operations and finally we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the united states whether it s a shooter at a sikh timple temple in wisconsin. plane flying into a building in texas or the extremists who killed 168 people at the federal building in oklahoma city americans have confronted many forms of violent extremism in our history. deranged or alienated individuals, often u.s. citizens or legal residents can do enormous damage particularly when inspired about larger notions of jihad. that pull towards extremism appears to have led to the shooting at fort hood and the bombing of the boston