What Is This World Coming To?

Department of Homeland Security officials are quite logically concerned that the upcoming political conventions, the Olympics and the November elections might present targets too tempting for al-Qaeda or other Islamic terror groups to ignore, reports ABC News.

Anti-terror officials in the U.S. cite this summer and fall’s lineup of two major political parties’ conventions, November’s general election and months of transition into a new presidential administration as cause for heightened awareness and action.

This is what the Department of Homeland Security is quietly declaring a Period of Heightened Alert, or POHA, a time frame when terrorists may have more incentive to attack.

According to drafts of government memos described to ABC News, the period would run roughly from this August through July 2009.