Our Own Backyard
The term-du jour is ‘homegrown terrorist’ used to describe (for those
of us in the U.S. anyway) persons determine to spread terror through
violence unencumbered by morals or values other than one’s own twisted
sense of ‘good and evil’ who is not from the fertile crescent. When a
report comes ‘across the wire’ (that terminology shows my age, i know)
that someone has attempted to detonate a bomb on U.S. soil we sooth our
fears of a world-wide conspiracy abated because this one was just a
simple loner, not really part of a major treat against the U.S. or her
allies. The same is true, at times for those of us, (I am referring to
westerners in general, Americans more specifically) who live and work
cross-culturally, often on foreign soil and many times as ministers of
the evangelical gospel, even when we might live within a stones throw of
the fertile crescent I mentioned earlier. Take for example a report
just recorded on the Investigative Project on Terrorism website,
“Two extradited from Romania in Hizbollah Sting”
Here we have a U.S. Attorney from the Manhattan Office indicting two men, Cetin Aksu from Turkey and Siavosh Henareh of Iran arrested in a U.S. led sting operation to get two successfully executed arrest warrants on two men, neither from the US. and neither from Romania but both from the fertile crescent but two different countries, one: Iran a sworn enemy of the U.S. and the other: Turkey, a supposed ally of the U.s. and every thing, the U.S. Attorney, the State of New York, the City of New York and Borough of Manhattan, the nations of Iran and turkey and the peaceful city of Bucharest Romania all connected by one primary thing, TERRORISM. In this case, it is the Hizbollah brand of Terrorism.
I have friends who live in Bucharest. They are part of a country-wide ministry there. I know others that lived lived in Romania for many years. Romania is the land of ‘Romies” (Gypsies is the slang term), country gentleness, farming with hand tools, horse drawn carts, corn meal and home made wine, even at its darkest it is the black arts of the Romies or the historic ” Vlad the Impaler” known to the West as ‘Count Dracula’ from Transylvania. But Romania, particularly beautiful Bucharest, not a safe haven for terrorists!
My point is simply this… if internationally connected terrorists can be found on the streets of Bucharest Romania, they can be found on the tree lined streets of small town America too. Before we, as police officers or others in the field dealing with the threat to our homeland security, always point fingers toward the other side of the ocean, or to major metropolis in Europe, we better look behind the swing-set in our own backyard.
“Two extradited from Romania in Hizbollah Sting”
Here we have a U.S. Attorney from the Manhattan Office indicting two men, Cetin Aksu from Turkey and Siavosh Henareh of Iran arrested in a U.S. led sting operation to get two successfully executed arrest warrants on two men, neither from the US. and neither from Romania but both from the fertile crescent but two different countries, one: Iran a sworn enemy of the U.S. and the other: Turkey, a supposed ally of the U.s. and every thing, the U.S. Attorney, the State of New York, the City of New York and Borough of Manhattan, the nations of Iran and turkey and the peaceful city of Bucharest Romania all connected by one primary thing, TERRORISM. In this case, it is the Hizbollah brand of Terrorism.
I have friends who live in Bucharest. They are part of a country-wide ministry there. I know others that lived lived in Romania for many years. Romania is the land of ‘Romies” (Gypsies is the slang term), country gentleness, farming with hand tools, horse drawn carts, corn meal and home made wine, even at its darkest it is the black arts of the Romies or the historic ” Vlad the Impaler” known to the West as ‘Count Dracula’ from Transylvania. But Romania, particularly beautiful Bucharest, not a safe haven for terrorists!
My point is simply this… if internationally connected terrorists can be found on the streets of Bucharest Romania, they can be found on the tree lined streets of small town America too. Before we, as police officers or others in the field dealing with the threat to our homeland security, always point fingers toward the other side of the ocean, or to major metropolis in Europe, we better look behind the swing-set in our own backyard.
