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Republican: ISIS developing means to ‘blow up’ a US city (Inhofe)
The Hill ^ | August 21, 2014 | Martin Matishak

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: inhofe; isil; isis; jayvee; jihadinamerica
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To: surrey

“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.


61 posted on 08/21/2014 12:50:38 PM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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To: maggief
“rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city...”

Developing a method? What's wrong? The existing methods for blowing up large cities aren't good enough for them?

62 posted on 08/21/2014 1:27:47 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: grania

I thought they were in the Mid-WEST...

;-)


63 posted on 08/21/2014 1:33:13 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: maggief
Will Holder defend ISIS’s right to blow up an American city?

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'...

64 posted on 08/21/2014 1:40:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (New York Times headline gaffe:'Obama Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course')
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To: HereInTheHeartland

mexico has tunnels all over our southern border and the democrats want to reward them for that with amnesty and citizenship.


65 posted on 08/21/2014 1:47:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Yaelle; Noamie
Here's a recipe for pressure cooked lamb shanks in garlic and port wine that sounds rather tasty.

http://www.food.com/recipe/lamb-shanks-with-garlic-and-port-wine-pressure-cooker-193141

66 posted on 08/21/2014 1:49:01 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
We need to be very vigilant.

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.

67 posted on 08/21/2014 1:52:45 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: maggief

Bookmark


68 posted on 08/21/2014 1:53:59 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: maggief

http://thehill.com/policy/international/215704-perry-real-possibility-isis-already-in-us

Perry: ‘Real possibility’ ISIS in US

08/21/14 02:42 PM EDT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195618/posts

Sen. McCain on ISIS threat: Obama ‘still doesn’t get it’

Fox News ^ | 8/21/14 | Fox News

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195607/posts

Hagel: Islamic State ‘beyond anything we’ve seen’

Yahoo News ^ | August 21, 2014


69 posted on 08/21/2014 2:21:12 PM PDT by maggief
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To: ifinnegan
Absolutely. It could happen.
70 posted on 08/21/2014 2:27:42 PM PDT by Bratch
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