Islamic Prison Gangs Probed for Alleged Plots Against Jewish Sites

More evidence that the two main anti-terrorism law enforcement tools are ineffective. Imprisonment enables recruitment and collaboration and deportation is like moving an enemy soldier to a different front in the battle. It is worth noting that the main security policy question at issue in the last U.S. presidential election was whether to treat terror as a war or an issue of law enforcement.

Counterterrorism officials have long seen prisons as likely breeding grounds for homegrown Islamic extremist groups plotting their own local attacks without any links to overseas networks.

Earlier this year, the FBI's director, Robert Mueller, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that "prisons continue to be fertile ground for extremists who exploit both a prisoner's conversion to Islam while still in prison, as well as their socioeconomic status and placement in the community upon their release."