By Lara Jakes Jordan
The Associated Press
Posted September 19 2006
WASHINGTON · U.S. prisons are becoming major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists, but state and local authorities are too cash’strapped to prevent or track recruiting, a new report concludes.

The report, to be released today, found there aren’t enough legitimately trained Muslim religious leaders to counsel an estimated 9,000 U.S. prison inmates who want Islamic services.

That allows extremists to target their vulnerable prison-mates with distorted versions of Muslim readings that urge radicalization and violence.

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