Terror Attacks Against U.S. At All-Time High

clipped from abcnews.go.com The pace and number of attempted terror attacks against the U.S. over the past nine months has surpassed the number of attempts during any previous one-year period, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report issued on Friday, May 21. The report notes chillingly that while US officials "lack insights" they believe that "operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning." The report notes that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Pakistani Taliban have "expanded their focus" to include the United States clipped from abcnews.go.com More worrisome even that these attacks -- both of which involve suspects who allegedly spent time at terror camps abroad -- is the possibility, states the DHS document, of "an attack strategy that does not rely on outside support or travel abroad," which "diminishes opportunities for discovery and disruption." the terror suspects and radical Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki, who was born in the U.S. but is now based in Yemen.

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