Getting ahead of the terror curve

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“My son was a normal American guy. He did what young people do. Then he became a Muslim, and he changed.” — Carmen Sosa, mother of alleged pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel Mom misspoke.

Pimentel’s problem wasn’t that he decided to covert to Islam. It’s that he chose to become an Islamic extremist, taking online lessons from al Qaeda on how to make war on the West.

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