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Homegrown terrorism and bunches of guys.

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

the daily look at the issues Americans care about most. The train bombings in Madrid and London exposed the threat of homegrown terrorism.

Now the focus of American law enforcement has changed from disaffected lone wolves to what the FBI

calls B OGs or bunches of guys. The NYPD pinpoints small groups of unremarkable people, it says, can be transformed into

willing killers.

On to the point, can local law enforcement take preventative action against BOGs without

violating constitutional liberties?

Why do the cops need satellite surveillance?

On reporter's notebook, a U.S. citizen released from prison still held in Iran.

First, the news.

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whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Foundation. Hello again. Mormon Al-Nayback with To the Point. In the drive to prevent so-called

homegrown terrorism, law enforcement is now focusing on BOGs or bunches of guys. On To the Point,

we'll find out who they might be and what new problems they cause for the cops and the

Constitution.

Under Porter's notebook, Iranian-American scholar Hale S. Fandieri has been released from prison in

Tehran, but she still cannot leave the country. We'll hear about her. First, this news update

at the summit in Canada today, President Bush acknowledged frustration with the government

of Iraq's president, Nuri al-Maliki.

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