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The new profile of an Al Qaeda terrorist

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    How the face of domestic terrorism has changed

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I have a mental image of what an al-Qaeda terrorist looks like but if you want an accurate image.

Look in the mirror or around your workplace or house of worship.

Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge tells us about the new profile of -- terrorist.

Twenty years since the first World Trade Center attack which killed six and in 2000.

This investigative report shows the face of domestic terrorism is changing the new generation of al-Qaeda operative is made in the USA.

Future attacks against the American homeland.

Will be less well organized.

Less complex.

Less likely to succeed and more likely to be conducted by citizens or long term residents.

Of the United States.

The report by the Henry Jackson society a British based think tank investigate a 171 individuals convicted of al-Qaeda related offenses.

Among the findings most operatives are American citizens there relatively young under thirty.

They're also educated here and hold skilled jobs.

-- -- computer programmers software engineers.

Pharmacists financial analysts -- not been.

Mollified by a system that that passed through woman number of home -- cases peaked in 2009.

The same years the Fort Hood massacre.

Investigators say the trend line is unpredictable.

-- example since November 30 at least seven alleged operatives arrested prosecuted or pled guilty to federal charges.

That's a case of domestic terrorism every other week in recent confirmation hearings -- the president's pick to run the CIA acknowledged the al-Qaeda threat.

Is serious an evolving.

Any element that is we associate with al-Qaeda.

Has as part of its agenda.

-- death and destruction and so I fully agree what we need to do is mindful of this man passes a nation of feel kind of cancer.

The report is time -- coming its members of the Senate Intelligence Committee renewed their demands for full access to the administration's secret legal memos.

The justified the targeted killing of American citizens overseas -- -- thank you.

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