Will ISIS plan a 9/11-style terror plot against the U.S.?

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Republicans are sounding the warning that the next 9/11-like terror plot could emerge from the regions of Iraq and Syria that are currently dominated by an extremist group bearing down on Baghdad.

Experts say the group's increasing power and reach is concerning, though it's not entirely clear when they might be able to threaten the U.S.

"You've got motivation mixed with opportunity, ideology and foreign fighters and all of that looks like a very extreme version of Afghanistan in the '90s, plus what was happening in Iraq after the Iraq war," said CBS News National Security Analyst Juan Zarate. "This is a cauldron of future terrorist threats to the west."

The bigger danger, Zarate said, is that the U.S. does not yet know exactly what the group will look like once it evolves. While ISIS might not launch an attack on U.S. soil tomorrow, he said, "I think the grave threat here is that you have the seeds of a new terrorist movement emerging very aggressively."

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that U.S. officials have warned the next major attack on U.S. soil could emanate from the region.

"The seeds of 9/11s are being planted all over Iraq and Syria," Graham said. "They want an Islamic caliphate that runs through Syria and Iraq...and they plan to drive us out of the Mideast by attacking us here at home."

Graham's concerns were echoed on ABC's "This Week" by Ret. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who said that "all Americans should be concerned" by ISIS' quick rise and success in Iraq. And on "Fox News Sunday," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said, "I guarantee you: this is a problem that we will have to face and we're either going to face it in New York City or we're going to face it here."

"These are not monkey bar terrorists out in the desert somewhere planning some very low-level attack. These are sophisticated, command and controlled, seasoned combat veterans who understand the value of terrorism operations external to the region, meaning Europe and the United States. That is about as dangerous a recipe as you can put together," he said.

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The question that remains is whether the U.S. would be able to thwart an attack if one materialized.

What's your answer to the above question?

 

[DrLeftover]

Of course they are planning something like that.

Of course Our Beautiful President and his supporters will deny they are planning something like that.

Of course our military and security forces will try to prevent something like that.

Of course the only way we'll find out, is to wait and see when something like that happens.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I think they are planning.

I think they have come in through our southern border and that planning is happening right here.

I think it will be multiple attacks at the same time in different areas of the country. Which will include bombs and biological.

I think this will happen when we have a new president or just at the end of our dear leaders reign.

 

[DrLeftover]

The US

And now others as well

Pope Francis calls for action as Iraqi Christians forced to flee

7 August
(Reuters) - Pope Francis appealed to world leaders on Thursday to help end the crisis in northern Iraq after a sweeping advance by radical Islamic state militants forced thousands of residents of Iraq's biggest Christian town to flee their homes.

"His Holiness addresses an urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs of the many who have been forced to flee and who depend on the solidarity of others," the Vatican said in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/iraq-security-pope-idINKBN0G718P20140807

 

[DrLeftover]

Let's rephrase the question:

"Will the group that is publicly beheading children carry out an attack on the West if given half a chance?"


"They will raise the flag of Allah over the White House."
VIDEO:
https://news.vice.com/video/the-islamic-state-part-1
The message to America begins about 4:30 or so


Another Video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/08/06/idesk-iraq-christians-persecuted-mark-arabo-intv.cnn.html

 

[DrLeftover]

8 Aug 2014
Friday at the press briefing, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta pressed White House press secretary Josh Earnest on the notion of President Barack Obama bombing ISIS in Iraq means the organization is no longer a "JV" team.

Acosta referenced an interview with New Yorker magazine's David Remnick Obama conducted in which he referred to non-al Qaeda groups in Iraq as the JV team.

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” he said. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/08/Reporter-Asks-White-House-if-ISIS-no-Longer-a-JV-Team