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Promote islamic extremism. they basically spend a lot of times on these sites and monitor their travel pattern and their communications. put them together and create a kind of a profile. >> needed to do almost the impossible. sort out the radical muslims not prone to violence and those that could turn into terrorists. >> it's a very difficult thing to detect when an individual's motive are people are self radicalizing. that keep step to then make the

Profile about that specific individual. >> law enforcement would need to do the almost impossible, sort out who are the radical muslims, not prone to violence and those who could turn in to terrorists. robert grenier is a former senior counterterrorism chief. >> it is a very difficult thing to detect when an individual, sm small group of people are self radicalizing. from going from views that you and i may consider radical or realistic to then make the decision that i'm going to engage -- i'm going to act on this and i'm going to act violently on this. that is a discreet step a subtle thing a...

Two men who were able to do quite a bit of damage as far as we can tell they are not -- they are not acting at the direction of anything but the influence of either the internet or maybe something happened in russia when tamerlan was over there. how do we go about identifying them or should it be about prevention? >> i think we have to ask why is it that some young are vulnerable to that narrative. there has to be something about the individual that he or she -- >> do you have a theory? i agre with you. >> i think when we see people who are more or less self radicalizing and may a trip abroad ...

About his life leading up to the bombing tamerlan tsarnaev does not seem to have been taken in by an extremist movement. these anecdotes we do have of his interactions with the muslim community in fact tell the opposite story and paint a portrait of profound alienation from the muslim community. of an extrication from anything larger. we have a mental category for people who commit violence inspired by an extremist version of islam and that is the category of terrorist. we also have another mental category for a pair of disturbed, self-radicalizing young men who create a private world that jus...

Local muslim community at all. the islamic society of boston took pains to report that neither brother was a member or even a regular attendee of the cambridge mosque. based on what we're learning about his life leading up to the bombing tamerlan tsarnaev does not seem to have been taken in by an extremist movement. these anecdotes we do have of his interactions with the muslim community in fact tell the opposite story and paint a portrait of profound alienation from the muslim community. of an extrication from anything larger. we have a mental category for people who commit violence inspired ...