Napolitano: Terror Threat Highest Since 9/11
Politico reports:
The United States is facing a terror threat “at its most heightened state” since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Wednesday.
“The terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly in the last 10 years — and continues to evolve — so that, in some ways, the threat facing us is at its most heightened state since those attacks,” Napolitano said in testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee. The danger, she said, has shifted — instead of coming almost exclusively from people sent from other countries to carry out attacks, it now comes primarily from westerners who are being recruited by terrorist groups.
Convened by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the hearing is the first in a series he’s promised on the threat of Islamic radicalization as the panel’s new chair.
King has described the hearings as a chance to examine the “disconnect” between law-abiding Muslims living in the United States and those who are recruited into terrorist groups. King said Wednesday on Fox News that his goal with the hearings “is to make it known and make the public aware and begin a public debate on the fact that Al-Qaeda is actively recruiting within the Muslim community” in the United States.
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