Radicalization
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Current US counter-terrorism efforts have either scattered, killed or captured Al-Qaeda's core leadership, reducing the threat from its central core operatives, foot-soldiers and leaders. However, the Jihad-Salafism continues to spread at an exponential rate across various locales, as a result creating subcultures within vulnerable Islamic Diaspora communities. The aim of this project is two-fold: [1] Radicalization process: Recent modeling efforts have focus on strategic measures of controlling terrorism, few have focus primarily on the horizontal process of fanaticism. However, these models fail to incorporate various dynamics (oblique and vertical process of fanaticism). In our project