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WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that Americans should be “particularly careful” shopping at malls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat. Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, which included mention and images of the Mall of America in Minnesota. “I would say that if anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they’ve got to be particularly careful,” Johnson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The al Qaeda-linked group was responsible for the deadly Nairobi, Kenya, mall attack...

Note: The following text is a quote: www.fbi.gov/page2/april10/sovereigncitizens_041310.html DOMESTIC TERRORISM The Sovereign Citizen Movement 04/13/10 Some examples of illegal license plates used by so-called sovereign citizens. Domestic terrorism—Americans attacking Americans because of U.S.-based extremist ideologies—comes in many forms in our post 9/11 world. To help educate the public, we’ve previously outlined two separate domestic terror threats—eco-terrorists/animal rights extremists and lone offenders.Today, we look at a third threat—the “sovereign citizen” extremist movement. Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United States. As a result, they...

Muslim Scholars Condemn London Attack, but Not All Suicide BombingsBy Thomas Wagner Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 15, 2005 LONDON (AP) - Muslim leaders and scholars met at London's largest mosque Friday to condemn the terrorist attacks in the British capital, saying the perpetrators had violated the Quran by killing innocent civilians and that no one should consider them martyrs. But the 22 imams and scholars stopped short of condemning all suicide bombings, saying that those that target occupying forces in countries such as Israel and Iraq are sometimes justified. "There should be a clear distinction between the suicide bombing...

US Urging Israel to "move Forward" Despite Netanya BombingBy Barry Schweid The Associated Press Published: Jul 12, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration, condemning Tuesday's deadly bombing in Israel, urged Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to "move ahead" toward establishing a Palestinian state despite the violence. The immediate focus should be withdrawal from Gaza and part of the West Bank, as Sharon has pledged to do later this summer, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said. Evidently concerned that Sharon might stop at that point because Palestinian leaders have not dismantled terror groups, Casey said the planned pullout was a "genuine...

THE demands to shut down our Guantanamo lock-up for terrorists have nothing to do with human rights. They're about punishing America for our power and success. From our ailing domestic left to overseas America haters, no one really cares about the fate of Mustapha the Murderer or Ahmed the Assassin. The lies told about Gitmo are meant to undercut U.S. foreign policy and embarrass America. The Gitmo controversy is about many things, from jealousy of the United States and outrage that we refuse to fail, to residual anger that we won the Cold War and exploded the left's great fantasy...

It was the fate of an American president raised in Midland, Texas, to come into a great burden, to prosecute the 21st century's first war in an Islamic world given to a malignant anti-Americanism...A country not particularly skilled in the ways of foreign chameleons and intriguers had no choice but to be pulled into the minefields and alleyways of strange places...there are vast multitudes out there, even in "friendly" lands, who winked at the terror and said in sly, insinuating ways that America had finally gotten its comeuppance...From Morocco to Indonesia, the people of Islam are 1.2 billion, a fifth...