Israel Matzav

The American jihadis

If there are any of you in the United States who still think you are immune from Islamic terror, please consider this.

Al Qaida "has never claimed it could or would defeat the U.S. militarily. Instead, it seeks to wear us down economically through increasing expenditures on domestic security and overseas military commitments," Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman said in recent congressional testimony. "Given the current global economic downturn, this message arguably now has greater resonance with al Qaida's followers and supporters and perhaps even with new recruits."

The goal behind these activities is "to consume the attention of law enforcement and intelligence in the hopes that this distraction will permit more serious terrorist operations to go unnoticed and thereby sneak in 'beneath the radar' and succeed," Hoffman said.

Al Qaida "and its Pakistani, Somali and Yemeni allies arguably have been able to accomplish the unthinkable: establishing at least an embryonic terrorist recruitment, radicalization and operational infrastructure in the United States with effects both at home and abroad," Hoffman said.

What is unmistakably clear is that Americans are playing a larger role than ever in al Qaida's terrorist network – at both the leadership and operational levels.

Just think, there are still at least another two and a half years with a President who won't allow Islam to be mentioned by anyone within his administration within 25 words of terror. What could go wrong?

Read the whole thing.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:10 AM