Posted on 09/22/2010 4:25:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The nation's top counterterrorism officials were blunt. The threat from within---of Americans willing to commit terrorist acts--- is growing. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a congressional hearing today that a spike in recent terrorism cases is direct evidence of the evolving threat.
"Groups affiliated with al Qaeda are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures," Mueller said. "It appears domestic extremism and radicalization appears to have become more pronounced based on the number of disruptions and incidents."
The officials all pointed to a series of recent incidents that show that al Qaeda, its affiliates and associates were more active than ever.
"During the past year our nation has dealt with the most significant developments in the terrorist threat to the Homeland since 9/11," Leiter told the committee. "The attack threats are now more complex, and the diverse array of threats tests our ability to respond, and makes it difficult to predict where the next attack may come.
The attacks cited included:
The disruption of a plot to bomb the New York City subway by Najibullah Zazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen, last September.
The attack at Ft Hood Texas by gunman Army Maj. Nidal Hassan which resulted in 13 people killed and over 30 wounded.
The attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 by alleged al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
The averted May 1 bombing in Times Square by Faisal Shahzad
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DUH!!!!!
No problem..the potentate Obama says we can just ‘absorb another terrorist attack’.
Don’t worry..be happy..hope and change are here!
FUbo!!!! Tell me this guy gives a crap about another 3000 of us being blown up, jumping to our deaths or being crashed into a field... not to mention tortured and being beheaded. I cannot tell you how profound my disdain is for this animal in the Whitehut.
The entire dim party would rather see 20 million illegal mexican invaders given American citizenship and dim voting cards... they would rather kill Capitalism, destroy free markets, nationalize industry, legislate mandatory buggery in the Military, kill NASA, downsize our Military and remove America's super power status, than lift one finger or spend one dime to protect Americans and kill our enemies.
LLS
Well, they were practically invited by the president.
Don’t worry, we can “absorb it”.
do not know this as a fact...but recent reports indicate ‘chatter’ is at an extremely high level
Interesting.
If that happens, they'll blame the Tea Party. Count on it.
OKC
I have always suspected there was more to that situation than met the eye.
We have 30,000 Saudi students here on education visas.
15 of the 19 09/11 hijackers were Saudis here on student visas.
Here the brain trusts try to state that there is a huge domestic terror threat, but of course the 30,000 students here on visas are never mentioned as a threat.
I see more and more charges that U. S. Citizens are the threat, but those 30,000 Saudi nationals, no problem.
History could never repeat itself. Honest. It just never does. Those Saudi students, no, that’s of no interest...
Seems that way to me, too.
Stand by to stand by, as they say....
I sure hope obama&co don’t fabricate something. Thanks for the ping.
the regime is just laying the groundwork for the october “surprise”.
Arrogance, pure arrogance...
Obama doesn’t think he has to care whether we believe him or not. He’s about to get one hell of a wake-up call on November 2nd.
It’s November 3rd through January 3rd that I am concerned with these days.
It’s just like where I work.....
Those ‘in charge’ are always the last to know.
Nothing we can’t “absorb”...
Yes, November 3rd through January 3rd will be a dangerous time. The Rats had best restrain Obambi and his thugocracy. It will be in their best interests to do so.
Weird, yesterday a friend told me that his friend fairly quickly packed up and moved away from the city. My friend explained to me that his friend had always told him that when he moved that things were about to go bad. My guess is something dirty.
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