Breaking News: Terror threat may be highest since 9/11 (Congress, enemy, radical)
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The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland has continued to "evolve" and may now "be at its most heightened state" since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told members of Congress on Wednesday.
Al Qaeda is at its weakest point in the last decade, but remains "a very determined enemy," Leitner said, noting there have been multiple disrupted plots in northern Europe in the last five years.
Authorities are also watching groups such as the one behind the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; Hezbollah; and Greek anarchists like the ones thought to have sent letter bombs to embassies.
At the same time, "homegrown radicalization is a growing threat, and one we cannot ignore," said New York GOP Rep. Peter King, the committee's chairman.
ok they are a major threat so then a good idea
Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, used the hearing to argue that Transportation Security Adminstration employees should be actively profiling Muslims at airports, as opposed to randomly selecting people in security lines.
"We're not focusing on those people who want to harm us, and the people who want to harm us are not grandmas," Broun said. "Give me a break. ... We've got to profile these folks."
her awnser after she just said that we a face a "a very determined enemy," that is a major threat to america
Napolitano argued that terrorists would ultimately benefit if certain airport screening procedures do not remain random. If rules are set down regarding the treatment of certain groups, she said, terrorists would "know those rules" and learn how to manipulate them.
kinda self defeating we know muslims radicals are behind the attacks but lets screen elderly retired people instead because we don't want to offend the people that are trying to attack america. I mean after all of the attacks not just here but in europe and the recent suicide attack at the international terminal at a moscow air port it is giving us no choice but to profile muslims for secondary screening
Oh my....are you a full blood Republican....although you tried this tactic too soon....Presidential elections are not for another year and some months....
Its just saber rattling...the DHS doesn't want to lose any funding money.
They probably want more, not less.
Defense is doing the same thing...using the terrorism fear in hopes they don't get their budget slashed.
News Flash to Terrorists: Don't attack us for a year or two cause we're broke..ok ?
I'm not worried one bit. Our Government is "watching" these "known terrorists"
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