Intelligence chiefs believe the U.S. is ripe for another terrorist attack.
It’s likely that Al-Qaeda will launch an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress. The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including “clean” recruits with a negligible trail of terrorist contacts, CIA Director Leon Panetta told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a hearing.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers that al-Qaeda remains at the center of the extremist threat against the United States. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and other terror groups are changing as they continue to plot and attempt attacks, the intelligence officials said.
“My greatest concern and what keeps me awake at night is that al-Qaeda and its terrorist allies and affiliates could very well attack the United States in our homeland,” Panetta told the senators.
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