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White House steps up warnings about jihad terrorism on U.S. soil

May 18, 2015 8:36 am By Robert Spencer

obama-fbiYou would think that some of these officials would stop and wonder why the Islamic State’s message so resonates with so many Muslims in America. But they are bound as a matter of policy to ignore that question.

“White House steps up warnings about terrorism on U.S. soil,” by Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2015:

Alarmed about the growing threat from Islamic State, the Obama administration has dramatically stepped up warnings of potential terrorist attacks on American soil after several years of relative calm.

Behind the scenes, U.S. authorities have raised defenses at U.S. military bases, put local police forces on alert and increased surveillance at the nation’s airports, railroads, shopping malls, energy plants and other potential targets.

Driving the unease are FBI arrests of at least 30 Americans on terrorism-related charges this year in an array of “lone wolf” plots, none successful, but nearly all purportedly inspired by Islamic State propaganda or appeals.

The group’s leader, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, drove home the danger in a 34-minute audio recording released online Thursday. He urged Muslims everywhere to “migrate to the Islamic State or fight in his land, wherever that may be.”

The audio was released with translations in English, French, German, Russian and Turkish, signaling the militants’ increasingly ambitious attempts to draw new recruits — and to spark violence — around the world.

U.S. officials estimate the Sunni Muslim group has drawn 22,000 foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq, including about 3,700 from Western nations. About 180 Americans have gone, or tried to go.

U.S. counter-terrorism officials initially viewed Islamic State as primarily a regional security threat, focused on expanding and protecting its self-proclaimed Islamist caliphate in Syria and Iraq, rather than launching attacks abroad.

But the analysis has shifted sharply as gunmen inspired by the group, but not controlled or assisted by them, opened fire at the Parliament in Ottawa; at a cafe in Sydney, Australia; at a kosher grocery in Paris; and, on May 3, in Garland, Texas.

In the Texas case, two would-be terrorists apparently prompted by Islamic State social media messages tried to shoot their way into a provocative contest for caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Both gunmen were shot to death, and no one else was killed. Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the assault, the first time it has done so for an attack on U.S. soil.

James B. Comey, the FBI director, warned this month that “hundreds, maybe thousands” of Americans are seeing recruitment pitches from Islamic State on Facebook, Twitter and other social media, as well as messages sent to smartphones of “disturbed people” who could be pushed to attack U.S. targets.

“It’s like the devil sitting on their shoulders saying, ‘Kill, kill, kill,'” Comey told reporters.

The United States has entered a “new phase, in my view, in the global terrorist threat,” Jeh Johnson, director of Homeland Security, said Friday on MSNBC.

“We have to be concerned about the independent actor, and the independent actor who is here in the homeland who may strike with little or no warning,” he said. “The nature of the global terrorist threat has evolved.”…

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  1. Georg says

    May 18, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Is that Gomer Pyle?

  2. Jay Airahs says

    May 18, 2015 at 8:59 am

    The Obama administration might want to stop wasting time spying on anti-jihad.

  3. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:01 am

    But-but – Obama, and HIS Administration, just let’s Jihad Terrorists BACK Into the U.S.A., and is Inviting even MORE.

    “American Citizen ISIS Fighters Allowed To Return to America”

    Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/citizen-isis-fighters-allowed-return-america/#gATf6cPzts0tH77X.99

    • William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

      May 18, 2015 at 9:31 am

      Additionally
      A FEW of MANY Links:
      Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/citizen-isis-fighters-allowed-return-america/#gATf6cPzts0tH77X.99
      http://pamelageller.com/2015/01/obama-imported-300000-muslims-into-the-us-in-2013.html/
      http://libertynews.com/2015/04/trey-gowdy-demands-obama-admin-come-clean-about-back-door-refugee-resettlement-program-that-may-allow-jihadists-into-u-s/
      http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/syrian-refugee-program-called-back-door-for-jihadists/
      http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/syrian-refugee-program-called-back-door-for-jihadists/
      https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/obama-tells-senior-un-official-the-united-states-will-be-a-muslim-country-by-2016/

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:14 am

    Alarmed about the growing threat from Islamic State…

    Knowing a thing or two about being alarmed, has it occurred to anybody to be alarmed at the growing number of Moslems here in America? The more the Jihad mass murder problem grows here, the more Moslems we bring in. Smart. And that’s *legal* Moslem immigrants. Add to those the Moslems coming in as illegal aliens through our southern border thrown open to all for other political reasons. The globo-socialists want meso-American natives to come in cuz they are not white and will vote Democratic, and also cuz they are ready made clients to central gubmint socialist programs. The WSJ/Chamber of Commerce crowd want them for cheap labor. Either way, some of them are Moslems, which by their nature spells long term trouble for the nation.

    But it’s racist to say that. It is also racist to say that the open borders policy is a violation of the law, which provides for sovereignty. No law, no sovereignty. No sovereignty, tens of millions of illegal aliens. Tens of millions of illegal aliens, at least 500,000 more Moslems on top of the numbers we’re importing legally.

    Doesn’t all this contribute to Jihad terror on American soil? Why worry about it? Prez Barack Hussein seems to think that Jihad terror here has no connection to the policies of legal and illegal immigration he is pursuing. So why should he be alarmed? Cuz his “alarm” is fake, a PR sop.

  5. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:29 am

    Additionally.

    A FEW of MANY Links:
    Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/citizen-isis-fighters-allowed-return-america/#gATf6cPzts0tH77X.99
    http://pamelageller.com/2015/01/obama-imported-300000-muslims-into-the-us-in-2013.html/
    http://libertynews.com/2015/04/trey-gowdy-demands-obama-admin-come-clean-about-back-door-refugee-resettlement-program-that-may-allow-jihadists-into-u-s/
    http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/syrian-refugee-program-called-back-door-for-jihadists/
    http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/syrian-refugee-program-called-back-door-for-jihadists/
    https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/obama-tells-senior-un-official-the-united-states-will-be-a-muslim-country-by-2016/

  6. Ludlow Porch says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:30 am

    These warnings from the White House are just to make us all think that they are doing everything to keep us all safe (LOL)! Obama brings in thousands monthly from Syria, Iraq under the guise of refugees and then turns around and issues warnings about the coming Jihad. Typical Liberal!

  7. somehistory says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:41 am

    He looks not alarmed in the least. Going to be taking over the FBI? Wearing the cap won’t make him any smarter, safer, or less of a liar. The beast is out to get everybody, everywhere. It already has those working for it as they do satan’s bidding, sealing their own fate, and all the while, believing they have power and ability far beyond those of all other mortal men.
    **********************************************
    We have to be concerned about the independent actor, and the independent actor who is here in the homeland who may strike with little or no warning,” he said. “The nature of the global terrorist threat has evolved.”…
    **********************************************
    *The independent actor*….another phrase that sounds very much like *lone wolf* in its description, but calling them actors instead of wolves. Doesn’t sound that much different than what they were saying before as far as how they go about their terror business.

    • Shmooviyet says

      May 18, 2015 at 2:12 pm

      The ‘independent actor’ title also echoes the “this has nothing to do with islam’ whopper.

  8. sahani says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:46 am

    Look around every news papers filled on daily basis is killing and destruction none but by islamic warriors . Who are these islamic warriors. If You Check their DNA you will find all are not arabs but arabs, who converted locals in each nation to destroy own nation .They have one book costing them $1 and Our foolish leaders permit them to convert our fools to die and destroy for Arab God they called him ALLAH who loves the blood of Infidel .Infidel converts to islam killing non convert infidel on the command and planning by saudis arabs Kings .We and our foolish leaders permit them to do it easily .
    Our leaders who permit own citizen to convert and work for enemy as islamic followers should be declared antinational and deported to saudi arab.

  9. Angemon says

    May 18, 2015 at 9:56 am

    “We have to be concerned about the independent actor, and the independent actor who is here in the homeland who may strike with little or no warning,” he said. “The nature of the global terrorist threat has evolved.”…

    No. No, it hasn’t. The medium where the message is spread may have changed, but the nature of islamic terrorism – which is the only ideology killing people worldwide – remains unchanged. And, of course, the main risk factor is disregarding the religious inspiration of islamic terrorism. How many people needlessly died in jihad terror attacks because religion wasn’t factored into the equation when authorities assessed whether the terrorist was a threat or not?

  10. underbed cat says

    May 18, 2015 at 10:27 am

    What is he messaging wearing the FBI cap…..is it code don’t worry your protected?

    • Westman says

      May 18, 2015 at 12:15 pm

      Let’s hope that the American Administration asks for the help of its citizens. Without them as eyes and ears it has no chance of containing the problem no matter how large the DHS and subsidiaries become. Bureaucracy has decining efficiency with increasing scale. In business this is called the law of diminishing returns.

      Hopefully they will start realizing PC isn’t working; that they need more people like Robert Spencer and less like CAIR and the MSA.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 14, 2015 at 12:54 am

      Fucked By Islam?

  11. Papa Whiskey says

    May 18, 2015 at 10:56 am

    The United States has entered a “new phase, in my view, in the global terrorist threat,” Jeh Johnson, director of Homeland Security, said Friday on MSNBC.

    But only a couple of years ago your boss said “the tide of war is receding”! I heard him, again and again! On TV!

  12. Bezelel says

    May 18, 2015 at 11:08 am

    hussein obola has some major conflicts of interest with reality. Everyone who is anyone; in a position (congress) that could put the brakes on his insanity, has resigned themselves to just endure the duration of this failed experiment of letting an evil idiot pretend to be president and then gamble with our future with the possibility that his successor will finish the destruction. Where’s the bright side? There has to be a bright side to this but I don’t see it.

  13. Brian says

    May 18, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Appears closet Muslim Obama only become worried by ISIS/ISIL when his name went on their hit list. He has created a monster that now wants his head.

  14. Prinz Eugen says

    May 18, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    What is the nature of this “terrorism” that sultan Barry and Jeh (sic!) Johnson are babbling about? Could it be islam? The big lie of the “protector of islam” Barry has been issuing daily is coming back to roost, as the faux “rev” Wright might say!

  15. lulu says

    May 18, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    thanks obama for all this muslins terrorists in usa soil

    • Joseph says

      May 18, 2015 at 7:12 pm

      @ lulu
      I WISH ALL THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS CURRENTLY HERE(AND ELSEWHERE) WERE…..”IN”……THE SOIL

  16. Walter Sieruk says

    May 18, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    This is a fitting time to reiterate that we ,as Americans, should not and need not live in fear . Nor should we be afraid to go the different place or do different thing be of the jihad threat. Be it from Al Qaeda , ISIS are any other like minded Islamic terror group. For to be afraid would make the jihadist enemy happy. Nevertheless, even though we must live without fear we still should be aware of our surroundings and be on the outlook for anything that seems not to look quite right.As in “What’s wrong with this picture ?” Then if something looks wrong then go a tell the right person about it. As for example that tee-shirt vendor at Times Square NY,NY. who saw some smoke come out of that parked van and them told a police officer about it,. As it had been said “If you see something,say something.” To put it another way, the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson applies now just as much if not more then in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson stated “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”

  17. TH says

    May 18, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    Obama is like a pyromaniac who, once he has started a fire, presents himself as a fireman.

  18. Christian A. Beltram says

    May 18, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    The ruin of the free world will not be jihadist organizations like ISIS, but the political correctness that prevents governments and their law enforcement agencies from placing the blame for jihadist terrorism exactly where it belongs, on the teachings of Islam. If political correctness is done away with before it is too late, then governments everywhere will be able to prosecute jihadists more effectively and ultimately to outlaw Islam which is in fact the only way to prevent jihadist terrorism from occurring in the first place.

  19. gravenimage says

    May 18, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    White House steps up warnings about jihad terrorism on U.S. soil
    ……………………..

    Looks like they want us to accept this evil as the “new normal”…

  20. gravenimage says

    May 18, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    It appears I missed the nasty white supremacist. Really, the threat of JIhad is not about race.

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