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Report: al Qaeda poses changing threat to America
By: cnn.comPosted On: 09/10/2010 11:38 A
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Nearly nine years after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, Americans still face a serious threat from al Qaeda, according to a new report from a panel of top national security experts.
Nearly nine years after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, Americans still face a serious threat from al Qaeda, according to a new report from a panel of top national security experts.
Among other things, the 42-page analysis warns of the expanding role played by U.S. citizens and residents within al Qaeda and allied organizations. It describes an increasingly wide range of "U.S.-based jihidist militants" who do not fit "any particular ethnic, economic, educational, or social profile."
The United States, the report asserts, now confronts "a dynamic threat that has diversified to a broad array of different attacks, from shootings to car bombs to simultaneous suicide attacks to attempted in-flight bombings of passenger aircraft."
Would-be terrorists are now likely to attempt more frequent and less sophisticated attacks compared to what transpired in 2001, the report states. Preventing such attacks will require greater involvement from state and local public safety officials, it says.
The report was produced by the non-partisan National Security Preparedness Group, chaired by former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Indiana, and former Gov. Tom Kean, R-New Jersey, who also headed the 9/11 Commission.
"Al Qaeda or its allies continue to have the capacity to kill dozens, or even hundreds of Americans, in a single attack," the report concludes. And al Qaeda leaders still "hope to inflict mass casualty attacks in the United States."
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