Posted on 08/21/2014 10:39:24 AM PDT by maggief
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunni militants are working on the capability to wipe out a city inside the United States.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has long threatened to carry out a catastrophic attack on American soil, with a spokesman recently boasting that the militant group would fly its flag over the White House.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said ISIS members are “rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can’t believe that’s happening.”
“Yes, it’s really significant what’s happening,” he added during a local television interview on Wednesday.
President Obama has stepped up U.S. air attacks against the group in Iraq after it posted a video online showing the execution of American photojournalist James Foley.
On Thursday, U.S. Central Command announced it had completed six more attacks near the Mosul Dam, making a total of 90 strikes since Obama authorized them on Aug. 8.
Inhofe said that despite the pounding by U.S. forces, ISIS could still inspire followers to attack stateside.
He also slammed the president for not coming up with a strategy to defeat ISIS.
“He's going to have to come up with something that we're going to do because they're holding another hostage in place and the problem is the president, quite frankly, says all these things and he never does them,” Inhofe said.
ISIS is believed to be holding at least four other U.S. prisoners, including journalist Steven Joel Sotloff, who appeared in the ISIS video showing Foley’s execution. The man speaking in that video threatened that Sotloff would be killed next.
“Security? Brooklyn Bridge ring a bell?”
And yet people wonder why the Port Authority shut down the GWB last year on 9/11 weekend, when a couple of US nukes were missing.
Developing a method? What's wrong? The existing methods for blowing up large cities aren't good enough for them?
I thought they were in the Mid-WEST...
;-)
ISIS IS - after all - "brown". And most Americans don't like the way ISIS acts... that's prejudice right?
Skin color is all that matters.
Has Holder tried to suppress the beheading video? It makes ISIS look bad... Remember ISIS - 'brown' - - beheaded guy - 'white'...
mexico has tunnels all over our southern border and the democrats want to reward them for that with amnesty and citizenship.
http://www.food.com/recipe/lamb-shanks-with-garlic-and-port-wine-pressure-cooker-193141
Securing our southern border would be a good start, but isn't going to happen and may already be too late. The largest mosque outside of the Middle East is in Venezuela.
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Perry: ‘Real possibility’ ISIS in US
08/21/14 02:42 PM EDT
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Sen. McCain on ISIS threat: Obama ‘still doesn’t get it’
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Hagel: Islamic State ‘beyond anything we’ve seen’
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