1. Army officials said West has asked Perry to revise the rules to allow Army recruiters to question recruits about any extremist activities they may have been involved in. 2. But civil rights groups have warned that military bases have long been breeding grounds for extremist activity. 3. But Wiggins, like other officials at Fort Bragg, acknowledged that the military had been blindsided by even the minimal level of extremist activity it found. 4. Idaho, a center of extremist activity, has an anti-militia law and a Terrorist Control Act. 5. In the past, journalists and social workers who tried to expose Islamic extremist activity have been harassed by police and intelligence officials. 6. Now three white soldiers have been charged in the killing of a black couple, and the army is investigating possible extremist activity at Fort Bragg. 7. Strozier, of John Jay College, said extremist activity is likely to escalate toward the end of this decade. 8. The killings led Army Secretary Togo West to initiate a worldwide inquiry into extremist activity in the ranks. 9. Whenever you have extremist activities and you have overreaction either through laws or law enforcement, then the public reacts against those eventually. . . . 10. Zein, who runs a center supporting Shiite Islamic beliefs, also testified that he had not taken part in any extremist activity against Israel. |