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...Sleeper Cells” is an Emmy-nominated Showtime miniseries that tells the story of so-called sleeper cells, terrorist units that live like ordinary individuals until told to launch a pre-planned attack...
...also said that she would like to examine how Muslims are being portrayed in post 9/11 American society and how they have been affected by accusations of terrorist activity...
...aftermath of 9/11, Muslim-Americans faced widespread suspicion as the attacks launched by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda were seen as representative of Islam...
...plan," Najibullah Zazi said in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Feb. 22, "was to conduct [a] martyrdom operation on subway lines in Manhattan." That scheme, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, represented "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001." Zazi, who was arrested last September, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan...
...Sauerland cell were so thorough and detailed that even prosecutors were surprised. But did they regret their actions? Gelowicz's lawyer points out that his client said during the trial "luckily nothing happened," seeming to be relieved their terror plot had been thwarted. Luckily, Germany did avert a major terrorist attack - this time. The question is whether the authorities have learned any lessons to prevent the next homegrown plot from coming to fruition...