SHE NOTICED!!! NAPOLITANO WARNS OF TERRORIST THREAT IN THE US
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/12/dhs-chief-discovers-that-a-jihadist-threat-in-the-us.html
DHS chief discovers a jihadist threat in the U.S.
She ascribes it entirely to al-Qaeda, which is inaccurate, but since she has hardly said anything at all about the jihad threat in the U.S. before, and got her job because of her work on the border as Governor of Arizona, this is noteworthy. “Homeland Security chief warns of threat from al-Qaeda sympathizers in U.S.,” by Spencer S. Hsu for the Washington Post, December 3 (thanks to Mackie):
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.
The secretary’s comments were her bluntest assessment yet of terror threats within the country, and they came one day after President Obama, in announcing his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, warned that extremists have been “sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit more acts of terror.”
Addressing the American Israel Friendship League in New York, Napolitano said a string of recent domestic arrests should “remove any remaining comfort that some might have had from the notion that if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won’t have to fight them here,” rebutting an argument advanced on several occasions by former president George W. Bush.
“The fact is that home-based terrorism is here. And like violent extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront,” Napolitano said. “Individuals sympathetic to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as those inspired by their ideology, are present in the U.S., and would like to attack the homeland or plot overseas attacks against our interests abroad.”
Napolitano cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, a Denver airport shuttle driver arrested in September after allegedly training with al-Qaeda in Pakistan….
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