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US Fears August Terror Window
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.
The Sleepers Have Awakened
According to an ABC ‘exclusive’ report, Iran has activated Hezbollah ’sleeper cells’ inside Canada with orders to attack Jewish targets and kill as many Canadians as possible.
Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected “sleeper cells” in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group’s Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa. Suspected Hezbollah operatives Read the rest of this entry »
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