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Two American individuals were arrested Monday, charged with independently trying to carry out assaults against the United States - and as John Miller reports, the trend since the September 11 terror attacks by the al Qaeda terrorist organization has been towards an increased threat from long wolf terrorists, many of whom are home-grown. Craig Benedict Baxam, an ex-Army soldier from Laurel, Md., was arrested for attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization in Somalia. Baxam is an Iraq vet who set out to travel to Somalia but was arrested and brought back to the U.S. Baxam conver stanley cup ted to Islam after tours in both Baghdad and in South Korea. According to the FBI Baxam then stanley mugs decided he was going to join al-Shabab, a Somali terrorist group that has 8,000 followers on Twitter. He cashes out all of his military savings, he s on his way to Somalia when he s arrested in Kenya, Miller said. FBI: Ex-soldier tried to aid terroristsOn Monday in Florida, Sami Osmakac, a Kosovo-born Muslim man, was charged with plotting to attack crowded locations around Tampa, Fla., including nightclubs and a sheriff s office. Miller reports Osmakac was planning to wear a suicide vest and attack nightclubs in the Tampa area, then at a separate location, after setting off his car bomb, [he would] hold hostages and blow himself up when the police arrive stanley cups . Alleged extremist terror plot foiled in Tampa I think what we re looking at here is a very interesting trend, said Qbxa FAA Got Qaeda Warnings Before 9/11
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