By ALYSSA KLEVEN
MyNorthwest.com

Research suggests that terrorists have adapted their efforts to bring terrorism stateside and that the war abroad isn't stopping recruiting for terrorist agencies at home.

KIRO Radio's Dave Ross spoke to Dr. Stephen Flynn, director of the Center for National Policy, who has been studying the reports from the former 9/11 commissioners.

Flynn says that the reports indicate terrorists have moved their recruiting to the U.S. as opposed to their home countries.

According to Flynn, we used to think we could head off terrorism before it reached the U.S. "The fact that these people are overseas, if we could just hunt and destroy them overseas and hold them at bay, that would fix the problem," said Flynn.

Flynn says that practices in recruiting new terrorists have turned stateside. Terrorists are now using the internet to find and recruit new terrorists and the demographics of these people are all across the board.

"We [invested] almost entirely, since 9/11, in our national security and intelligence capabilities for working overseas but the domestic challenges of sharing information with local law enforcement has not gone so well and needs a lot more attention," said Flynn.

The scale of attacks on U.S. soil might be less, according to Flynn, but he stresses that these are kinds of attacks that are more difficult to prevent.

Flynn points out that with terrorism stateside, ordinary citizens are the front lines of the attack. "The two biggest events of the past few months, one the underwear bomber of Christmas day, it wasn't an air marshal that stopped that act it was the passengers on the airplane," and with the attempted bomb in Time Square, a t-shirt vendor called in the suspicious activity.

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