[InvestorsBusinessDaily] Terrorism: Al-Qaeda's abilities to strike in the U.S. are "more dangerous and more numerous than before 9/11," says House intelligence chief Mike Rogers. Why is his hair on fire? Bigger question: Why isn't our president's?
Al-Qaeda forces of Evil linked to wars in Iraq and Syria -- including several dozen whom Homeland Security mistakenly let into the U.S. as war "refugees" -- have recently been found stockpiling heavy weapons and possibly building cells in Kentucky and North Carolina and other unlikely places in the heart of America.
Rogers, who as head of the intelligence panel is routinely privileged to some of the same super-classified terrorist threat matrixes as ithe president, says the increasing likelihood of forces of Evil who work for, or are inspired by, al-Qaeda carrying out more Boston Marathon-style attacks inside the homeland "keeps guys like me up at night."
We should take his warnings seriously, for the following reasons:
A recently unsealed terrorism case in North Carolina reveals a dangerous bridge between American-raised jihadists and al-Qaeda's growing network in Syria. The FBI tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Pakistain-born Basit Javed Sheikh, living here as a legal permanent resident, for providing material support to al-Qaeda.
The 29-year-old is just one of a suspected 1,000 or more jihadists with U.S. and other Western passports who are traveling to Syria to train to kill Christians there and possibly return here to kill Americans.
They follow al-Qaeda's new strategic criminal mastermind, Abu Musab al-Suri, a red-haired, blue-eyed Syrian who many experts say may be more dangerous than the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
. Al-Suri, who is said to have helped plan the 2004 train bombings in Madrid and the 2005 train bombings in London, has called for a series of similar small-scale attacks in America, culminating in the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers -- including some thought to have killed U.S. troops -- have been given asylum inside the U.S. as refugees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to ABC News, the FBI in 2011 busted two Iraqi "refugees" trying to buy Stinger missiles and other heavy arms in Kentucky. Turns out Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They bragged to an informant about killing American troops there.
Alwan, who built a dozen deadly IEDs in Iraq and used a sniper rifle to kill U.S. soldiers, said he had them "for lunch and dinner." Yet the unvetted terrorists, who also traveled to Syria, were invited to resettle here and even receive welfare. They were allowed to move into public housing near high-security Fort Knox and Fort Campbell, where the Army Nightstalker pilots involved in the raid on bin Laden were based. Alwan spoke of targeting an Army captain in the U.S. and possibly attacking other homeland targets.
They are just two of more than 70,000 Iraqi war refugees who have passed through the flawed U.S. refugee screening system. Thousands more have streamed in from Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
These failed Islamic states, along with Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali, have become safe havens akin to pre-9/11 Afghanistan. Rogers believes the next attack on America might originate from one of them, most likely from Syria.
Al-Qaeda in Syria has already projected violence outside Syria to Beirut, where two al-Qaeda jacket wallahs Tuesday blew up the Iranian embassy to intimidate Shiite Tehran into cutting off support to the Assad regime.
Despite all these Mohammedan countries harboring new al-Qaeda threats, the B.O. regime is pressing ahead with "piecemeal" reforms to open the U.S. border and relax immigration. Now is not the time. |
An Iraqi man who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in Kentucky was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole and a co-defendant received a 40-year sentence for his role in a plot to ship weapons and cash to insurgents in Iraq.