Napolitano warns of homegrown terrorists

[The Straight Story]

Napolitano warns of homegrown terrorists


NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida sympathizers within U.S. borders are a threat domestically and abroad, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

Napolitano, addressing the American Israel Friendship League in New York Wednesday, said a rash of recent domestic arrests should "remove any remaining comfort from the notion that if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here," The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Her comments came one day after President Barack Obama announced an additional 30,000 U.S. troops would be deployed to Afghanistan and warned that extremists have been dispatched from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region -- considered a safe haven for terrorists -- to the United States " to commit more acts of terror."

"Home-based terrorism is here," Napolitano said. "And like violent extremism abroad, it will be part of the threat picture that we must now confront. ... Individuals sympathetic to al-Qaida and its affiliates, as well as those inspired by the group's ideology, are present in the U.S., and would like to attack the homeland or plot overseas attacks."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/03/Napolitano-warns-of-homegrown-terrorists/UPI-56781259849763/

[arcadian]

1. Meet the new boss... same as the old boss.

Anybody care to tell me the difference between Republicans and Democrats again?

[leveymg]

4. Stupidity, greed, avarice and divided loyalties drive policy less these days

9/11 was a policy failure, at the very top, not the "intelligence failure" it was made out to be to protect the Bush-Cheney White House from the political consequences.

And, yes, there are people, here and abroad, who would kill a lot of Americans if they had the chance. Same as it ever was.

[arcadian]

5. Gosh, how do you ever leave your house every day?

The fear must be all consuming, like their out to get you, lurking around every corner?

[leveymg]

7. It's not like there aren't hundreds of thousands of people whose jobs are to worry about this.

Why should I be particularly afraid?

[Craftsman]

8. Many in both parties are owned by the same corporate interests.

[MadHound]

2. Wonder how long before the anti-war movement is classified as a terrorist group

You know that it's coming.

[Echo In Light]

9. Anti-war types have been the real domestic target all along

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/spy-files

http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc071806a

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/28/broadcast_exclusive_declassified_docs_reveal_military

[NightWatcher]

3. "American Israel Friendship League "??? why are we ratcheting up the Fear-o-meter?

So "fighting them there" is not preventing "fighting them here"? Isnt that one of the reasons that Obama JUST SAID that we are surging in AfPak? I'm loving the mixed messages.

Is "terra terra terra" the only way that we can justify our foreign (and or domestic) policy? If so, it's a pretty shitty foreign/domestic policy.

[michreject]

6. She said returning Vets are terroists too.

Keep trying to you get it right. Broken clock and all that.