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Terror level raised to severe in UK!

Home Secretary Alan Johnson today raised UK's terror threat level to severe.  At the same time he said a terrorist attack was not imminent. This follows last week's increase in airport security in the U.S., which was the 2nd increase since the Christmas Day failed bombing.

The higher security level means a terrorist attack is considered "highly likely" in the UK.

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano may erase terrorism from vocabulary

Today President Barack Obama's new Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, will testify before Congress for the first time.

Napolitano will not use the term terrorism, at all,  despite the fact she used it eight times in her pre-confirmation testimony. 

This move to not identify our enemy is similar to what they've done in Britain where the threat of another attack is growing greater by the day.

From Napolitano's transcript: February 25, 2009

Testimony of Secretary Janet Napolitano before the House Committee on Homeland Security, "DHS: The Path Forward"

The action directives required DHS components to report back to me in a short timeframe, and I want to update the Committee on the status of the directives:

• Efficiency Review – Last week, I issued an action directive calling for an Efficiency Review across DHS. 
• State and Local Intelligence Sharing and Integration – I issued two action directives concerned with the Department’s partnerships and intelligence-sharing activities with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.
• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita – I issued an action directive regarding the Department’s continued efforts in recovery from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
• Border Security, Immigration, Employment Verification, and Enforcement – I issued a number of directives related to border security and immigration. Among the directives, I requested an assessment of past border security assistance by National Guard and Department of Defense assets.
• Transportation Security – In an effort to assess security across all forms of transportation, I directed the review of transportation security in the surface, maritime and aviation sectors. 
• Critical Infrastructure Protection – I issued an action directive to assess the status of the Department’s efforts to shield the Nation’s critical infrastructure from attacks. I issued a separate directive for an assessment of DHS’s critical role in cybersecurity.
• Healthcare Surge Capacity – I issued an action directive that evaluated DHS’s role in building capacity for a “healthcare surge” – the increase in people who might need medical attention after an incident...
• Planning and Risk Management – I issued an action directive asking for a report on DHS’s lead role in the interagency effort to develop Federal operational plans for prevention, protection, response, and recovery activities for the National Planning Scenarios.

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Also see:

"Man-caused disasters" the new term for Islamic terrorism!

Global Islamist terrorism that dare not speak its name

War of terror and enemy combatant terms disappear but enemies still loom large

Yet, in her testimony before being nominated she did mention terrorism about 8 times:

DHS: Testimony of Secretary-Designate Janet Napolitano before the ...

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Napolitano: DHS to miss cargo screening deadline

Director of FBI warns of possible U.S. terror attacks

Its time for another reality check on our national security risks from the head of the FBI who spoke yesterday at the Council of Foreign Relations.  This assessment appears not to speak well for the Religion of Peace followers and their ability to rein in Islamic extremists with their own Muslim community:

Photo credit FBI

"FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today warned that extremists "with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons" to sow terror, raising the specter that recent attacks in Mumbai that killed 170 people last year could embolden terrorists seeking to attack U.S. cities.

At a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Mueller said that the bureau is expanding its focus beyond al-Qaeda and into splinter groups, radicals who try to enter the country through the visa waiver program and "home-grown terrorists."

"The universe of crime and terrorism stretches out infinitely before us, and we too are working to find what we believe to be out there but cannot always see," Mueller said.

One particular concern, the FBI director said, springs from the country's background as a "nation of immigrants." Federal officials worry about pockets of possible radicals among melting-pot communities in the United States such as Seattle, San Diego, Miami or New York.

A Joint Terrorism Task Force led by the FBI, for instance, continues to investigate a group in Minneapolis after one young man last fall flew to Somalia and became what authorities believe to be the first U.S. citizen to carry out a suicide bombing. As many as a half-dozen other youths from that community in Minnesota have vanished, alarming their parents and raising concerns among law enforcement officials that a dangerous recruiting network has operated under the radar..."

Washington Post