Do domestic terrorist groups have ties to al-Qaeda?
There are no known operational links between domestic terrorist groups and al-Qaeda, but monitoring organizations have noted that both American right-wing extremists and Islamist militants spread similar theories about Jews, Freemasons, and other groups conspiring to control the world. Moreover, some white supremacists applauded the September 11 attacks. Anyone who is willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is alright by me, said one leader of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group based in West Virginia; I wish our members had half as much testicular fortitude. Have domestic terrorists changed their behavior since September 11? Since the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the subsequent anthrax letters, any terrorism-related leadinternational or domesticreceives increased scrutiny. As a result, American extremists have been lying low, experts say. Nonetheless, eco-terrorists firebombed a Bureau of Land Management wild-horse corral in Nevada and
