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Senior Intelligence Officials: Attempted Terror Attack "Certain"

The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel they are "certain" that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months.

If true, why do you think the jihadists feel emboldened?

The Obama administration is seen as weak against terrorism.
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June 20, 2008

Exclusive: CRC Open Sources

W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Director, Counterterrorism Research Center

CRC Open Sources

In this week's CRC Open Sourceswe look at a few important pieces of analysis, the first of which is less analysis, and more of an appeal to voters in Pennsylvania to "make some noise" in support of an initiative to divest that state's pensions from foreign companies doing business in Iran and Sudan. This appeal, sent to us by our friends at the Center for Security Policy, is time sensitive, so read it here now at World Defense Review.

Also at WDR is a just-published story regarding Lebanon's OTV, a publicly traded satellite television company that was launched in North America, Monday.

The problem with OTV is that it was founded last year by retired Lebanese Army Gen. Michel Aoun - a professed ally of the terrorist-group Hezbollah - and his Free Patriotic Movement. And both Aoun and the FPM continue to have a heavy hand in OTV's news broadcasts.

"... Aoun and his FPM are closely allied to Hezbollah, a ‘foreign terrorist organization' so-designated by the U.S. State Department.

"Hezbollah is perhaps the most-dangerous Talibanesque terrorist-army on the planet. The organization is trained, armed and equipped, operationally supported, and heavily funded by Iran (at least $ one-billion, annually); and operationally supported by Syria. In fact, Hezbollah is so dangerous - and gaining in its global strength and influence - that Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff recently warned, the organization ‘makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.'

"Hezbollah also has a growing and incredibly influential telecommunications and media arm, which operates both openly and in the shadows. ..."

Read more here.

• Divest Terror Initiative in Pennsylvania
• The Long, Deceptive Arm of TERROR, INC.
• FISA, Finally?
• The Enemy has a Name
• "Full-fledged Acts of Terror"
• CIA Responds to June 12 NY Times Editorial
• McCain, ex-CIA chief doubt Obama's readiness to deal with terrorists
• Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed pleads guilty providing material support to terrorists

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. is director of FSM's Counterterrorism Research Center.

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