Al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group Could Attack U.S.

By Catherine Herridge
FOXNews.com
Friday, October 02, 2009

According to the FBI director in this Fox News story, Al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group could attack the U.S. This reporter made sure it reported “on the record” what the FBI director is now admitting that the U.S. is now a target because terrorists are just not content enough to only terrorize Somalia in Africa, but would now like to terrorize the U.S. All of this came out in the hearing on Capitol Hill where the FBI Director Robert Mueller stated "I would think that we have seen some information that the leaders would like to undertake operations outside of Somalia," Mueller told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. This is apparently groups that only fought the Somali government and Ethopian forces and are members of the Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab but are now bored and intent on spreading terror to the U.S. in an effort to enlarge the range of the Islamic state.

In response to the writer of the story who seems altogether upset at the possibility of an attack by this new threat, I’m a little bit annoyed. The U.S. has always been Al Qaeda’s biggest target to want to hit and just because another group wants to join in does not make the threat any greater, so I am not as alarmed as the reported seems to be.



Sure this Al Qaeda group could hit the U.S. in a terrorist attack, but that is not new news to me, nor is the fact that Americans are going to Somalia and training with the Al Qaeda groups and returning to the United States. The article stated “Mueller said he is "absolutely" concerned that Americans who traveled to Somalia to train as terrorists would have U.S. legal status and would therefore be able to return to the United States and carry out attacks. Duh, if I might use a word to tell what I think of this statement. Shouldn’t it be easier to track them once they return and put surveillance on them if they know they have been out of the country especially to Somalia? I would think it would be in their favor to root out the bad guys if they did travel outside the country and then come back in. The ones we have to worry about might be the terrorist cell already training on American soil. The reporter keeps calling information from unknown U.S. counterterrorism officials as “troubling developments” further enhancing her alarm, but this does not seem like alarming news to me. I know the terror is real and a boding but more terrorists do not seem to make it seem more frightening. One terrorist is enough for me.

This reporter does not speak kindly about an American born in Daphne, Alabama and describes him as “big-eared and bright-eyed college dropout” who goes by the name "The American." The reporter even references the Muslim community as calling terrorists “angry" individuals in which this “American" got involved with. I know this evil seems to be spreading and I am glad our FBI is keeping tabs on any threats that present themselves, but this just seems like this story wasted space on something we are already aware of and pretty much crass to.