Fresh off Friday evening’s attack in Paris, ISIS has issued a new video in which they threaten attacks across the world, with Washington DC in particular mentioned as their next target, saying all nations involved in the “crusader campaign” against them would face the same.
The video reportedly came out of Salaheddin Province, Iraq, and the Department of Homeland Security says they are not going to comment on the video but have no information on a potential attack.
Just yesterday, White House officials were dismissing the risk of ISIS attacks within the United States, insisting ISIS lacks the capability of launching attacks on American soil. The reliability of this assessment is, however, in some dispute.
ISIS is seen to be keen to launch more high-profile overseas attacks lately, with a Thursday attack in Beirut and a Friday one in Paris, and the United States, the leader of the anti-ISIS coalition, is presumably very high on their target list as well.
You can run but you cannot hide.
Was the video another SITE production? I can't seem to find any reporting as to its provenance.
Why does ISIS not attack Israel, it's much closer and it rules the US congress.
Vengeance blowback — Blame the morality of it, not the people in it
For this vengeance blowback called terrorism, it is a closed loop control system were everyone suffering force is being victimized by it, and because they are all using force in a vain attempt to overcome evil, they all share equally in the crime of it.
From the corporate rich who created both Israel and the Islamic State knowing full well that such deadly force would maximize the profit in trading war materials for Middle-East oil, to the voting majority in Western nations who were always most eager for wars of aggression to maximize the economy, to those who are given no recourse but to defend their cause with a suicide bomb, all equally innocent and all equally guilty.
Comes now Fair Media to enlighten the public by doing what is fair and just to all involved.
Vengeance blowback kills 150 in Paris, including eight driven by vengeance who died in vain
"…ISIS lacks the capability of launching attacks on American soil."
If the US National Security Team actually believe that ISIS doesn't have the capability to attack the US from the inside then they're idiots. The thing about terrorism is that in a "free" society, which the US supposedly has, stopping a half dozen armed ideologues from killing innocents is nearly impossible. The US might get lucky and stumble on to a plot but generally speaking, the US is awash in information, both valid and bogus and will never have the time to analyze and decipher the data before the first drop of blood is drawn.
Perhaps if the US National Security infrastructure were more interested in stopping the radicalization of muslims and their supporters they wouldn't have to gnash their teeth waiting for the first flash of retribution to occur. But stopping the radicalization would require some serious introspection of the root causes of this radicalization and that, my friends, is not going to happen any time soon – at least not by the US National Security mavens.
One of terrorism's bet weapons is … terror. Even if ISIS never launches an attack on the US, the fact of threatening it puts everybody into a tizzy.