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| DHS Director: Lone Wolf Threat Growing |
| 2011-12-05 |
| U.S. Homeland Security Director Janet "Sensible Shoes" Napolitano said Friday that the risk of "lone wolf" attackers, with no ties to known extremist networks or grand conspiracies, is on the rise as the global terrorist threat has shifted. Napolitano acknowledged shifts in the terror threat this year, but said the changes had little to do with the uprisings that have overturned the old order in countries around the Arab world and opened up new opportunities for extremist groups. "There's been a lot of evolution over the past three years," she said. "The thing that's most noticeable to me is the growth of the lone wolf," the single attacker who lives in the United States or elsewhere who is not part of a larger global conspiracy or network, she said. She named no examples, but it's a phenomenon that is increasingly the focus of international anti-terror operations. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #9 What? No 'sploding turkeys to worry about? Go away you almost-as-ugly-as-helen-thomas bitch. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-12-05 22:01 |
| #8 If jewish grandmothers are NOT searched, the next Bomber will dress as a Jewish Grandmother. Yes they MUST search them, end of story, Amybody with a bulge. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-12-05 16:48 |
| #7 Maybe she means a certain lone wolf Attorney General. Nah - Holder is not a lone-wolf, he has the full backing of Barack Obama and his crew. I think she's talking about those lone wolf tea-partiers who are at home baking cookies and apple pies. With their demands of accountability, restrictions on the divine power of Obama, etc... Certainly not Islamic terrorists - everyone knows there are no such people. Just ask the media! The science is settled! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-12-05 16:35 |
| #6 "Lone wolves are a lot weaker than organized terrorist groups." There are a lot of "Lone Wolves" out there. Most were born here and speak English. Combine that with opportunity and a little knowledge and you've got big problems. |
| Posted by: Jesh Ghibelline3242 2011-12-05 15:58 |
| #5 Maybe she means a certain lone wolf Attorney General. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-12-05 14:05 |
| #4 Bingo, P2k! |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-12-05 13:46 |
| #3 Translation - Now that the Prez is winding down the WOT operations overseas, we need mission creep here to protect our phoney baloney jobs. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-12-05 11:30 |
| #2 Lone wolves are a lot weaker than organized terrorist groups. They're the largest threat now? Then we really don't have any threats. Moreover, by definition, lone wolves don't work with anyone and hence it doesn't make much of a difference how much effort is spent to catch them - they won't get caught. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-12-05 10:56 |
| #1 no ties to known extremist networks or grand conspiracies Maybe not ties obvious to you, Ms "lets strip search some Jewish grandmother". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-05 10:36 |