Napolitano says more terror plots are homegrown
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March 15, 2011 2:14 PM

DENVER (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says joint intelligence centers are one of the "centerpieces" in the fight against terrorism.

Napolitano said Tuesday that such centers were instrumental in arresting a suspect in the attempted car bombing in Times Square and in foiling the attempt to bomb New York's subway system. She was speaking in Denver at a national conference on fusion centers.

The centers are designed to gather information about terrorism and other threats and share it with agencies that need to know.

Napolitano said plots against the nation "increasingly involve American residents or American citizens" and that she's trying to distribute resources into local communities. So far, Homeland Security agents have been placed in all but two of the nation's 72 fusion centers.

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