ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: L.A. Times
09February2011 9:38amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON — Abdulhakim Muhammad was born Carlos Bledsoe, played high school football and attended business school in college. He mowed his 
grandmother's lawn. He also converted to Islam at a Memphis mosque, studied in Yemen and, while there, fell in with a group of extremists.
By the time he returned to the U.S., federal law enforcement officials say he had been dangerously radicalized as a domestic terrorist. When he allegedly opened fire with an SKS automatic rifle on a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting station, he became part of a rising trend — one of 50 Americans arrested on terror charges in the last two years.
From May 2009 to last November, authorities broke up 22 homegrown terror plots, compared with 21 during the previous eight years. (read full report)
