mr. silber. two quick comments. the testimony that you give a summary of, the various homegrown terrorists plots that have been informed and stopped in the last year reminds us that, though we are in an unconventional war with the islamic extremists who attacked us on 9/11, that war increasingly has come within our borders. it started here officially, if you will, even though it was coming at us before 9/11/01. this pattern of homegrown radicalization is a very significant front and one that our law enforcement is obviously dealing with quite effectively since most of these plots, except for the ones that were lone wolves and presumably hasan, most of the others which were groups. the second thing is in the question and answer period i am going to ask you to relate this systematic framework that you have of the phases of radicalization to nidal hasan based on what you know about him from public sources know. our next witness is juan carlos zarate, former deputy assistant to the president's deputy national security a