Posted on 06/16/2014 7:18:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans are sounding the warning that the next 9/11-like terror plot could emerge from the regions of Iraq and Syria that are currently dominated by an extremist group bearing down on Baghdad.
As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - which has already captured the cities of Tikrit and Mosul and is threatening to take the capital city as well - grows in strength and numbers, will it pose an immediate threat to the United States homeland as well?
Experts say the group's increasing power and reach is concerning, though it's not entirely clear when they might be able to threaten the U.S.
"You've got motivation mixed with opportunity, ideology and foreign fighters and all of that looks like a very extreme version of Afghanistan in the '90s, plus what was happening in Iraq after the Iraq war," said CBS News National Security Analyst Juan Zarate. "This is a cauldron of future terrorist threats to the west."
The bigger danger, Zarate said, is that the U.S. does not yet know exactly what the group will look like once it evolves. While ISIS might not launch an attack on U.S. soil tomorrow, he said, "I think the grave threat here is that you have the seeds of a new terrorist movement emerging very aggressively."
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US targets are the ultimate goal for terrorism for all Islamists. The US chose the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and they are now closed. The Islamists are now in control and guess their choice for the battlefield du jour? And they are well positioned with a fifth column already in place and the southern border wide open.
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It wasn’t that people fell asleep.
What happened was that Bush was becoming too popular and the only way to change that was for the media and the dems to incessantly lie about what was happening.
no they will not.
as evidenced by all their attacks, it’s been a progression in strategy and timing.
9-11 proved they could pull off a coordinated multi-prong attack. the only thing left is to increase the ordinance
and since we let anyone walk over the board... expect a few dozen satchel nukes to be brought in, assembled, and denotated across 10 cities
I wonder if people will blame 0bama at that point. doubtful. he’ll spin it and use it as a rallying cry... even tho he let it happen.
My guess is that they will target a very blue big city.
Its Prog suicide.
I refuse to use this latest group’s new name. I haven’t learned how to pronounce the last two or three.
I blame W. for this. He made such a big deal about the difference between the vast majority of “good” Muslims and Al Qaida. We waged a war against, first the Taliban, then Al Qaida. Then this affiliated group and that affiliated group. New name after new name.
We are at war with “MUSLIM TERRORISTS”. ONE name, ONE group. I don’t care if they are Shia or Sunni, Arab or Persian, European or African. THEY ARE ALL MUSLIM TERRORISTS! THEY ARE ALL MUSLIMS!
We are obsessed with “naming” them, when we should be KILLING them.
“lock down the borders here and enforce the immigration laws to the last detail and get rid of all the illegal immigrants.”
Wish we had the leadership with the gonads to do this. Most immigrants post-1980’s have been bad news for America anyways. We should have a permanent moratorium on immigration.
Owebama’s dog Bowe spent the last 5 years teaching them how to do it!
RE: My guess is that they will target a very blue big city.
God forbid it’s us again :(
YES!!!
I remember that too. That memo got out that detailed the Rats plan to criticize Bush on the war, The Swimmer (spit) gave his “Quagmire” rant, the insurgency started in earnest.
Actually the question need not even be asked.
They ( Al Qaeda and affiliates ) have ALWAYS been plotting against the West in general and the USA in particular.
That’s a given. It remains to be seen if we are VIGILANT enough to deter them.
The radar outage on Friday was because of massive sunspot activity, and had been predicted because Friday was the peak of a period of sunspot activity.
That said, I suspect they or somebody associated with them may have the Malaysian plane and is planning something not very nice.
We always underestimate them, as we obviously did this time in these current attacks; Obama and the left are scoffing that this is “just a rag tag band having a sectarian squabble.” But they’re not.
Bad news: Almost every single one of the people who have attacked us, including the 9/11 attackers, have been LEGAL immigrants and didn’t crawl in over the Mexican border but strolled through customs and immigration in one or another of our major airports.
People who think our immigration program doesn’t need reform better take a close look at this. We are LEGALLY admitting terrorists every day.
Bush’s Fault.
I believe it!
We’re destroying our own nation with our immigration laws (actually all 1st world countries do this by allowing 3rd worlders in).
How many future murderers are we importing with this Mexican invasion? How many future rapists? DUI killers?
I’d be surprised by another 9/11 type attack. I fear multiple random attacks. I think they could mirror these school shootings that grip the nation and the MSM coverage, 24/7, for days. I don’t think it will necessarily be “schools”, as we have beefed up security and scrutiny there.
It could be shopping malls. They wouldn’t necessarily have to be suicide bombers either. They could drop off “back pack” bombs and leave. They could attack like they did the hotel in Mumbai and then melt into the crowd and vacate the area to strike another day.
How can you doubt the likelihood of hundreds if not thousands of terrorists already being in this country due to our almost nonexistent border security?
We are committing national suicide by ignoring border security and having elected an ineligible, Marxist, Muslim, America hating, gay, sissy of a man as president.
Thanks for posting that. What is their objective by blowing up the mosque at the Temple Mount? To usher in world war?
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