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'US due for deadly terrorist attack by homegrown terrorists’ | A top counterterrorism official has warned that a spate of thwarted bombing attempts proves that the United States is facing an evolving threat from homegrown terrorists. National Counterterrorism Center Director, Michael Leiter, said this after the FBI arrested Mohamed Osman Mohamud,
a Somali-born US national accused of planning to bomb a Christmas tree lighting
ceremony in Portland . “We aim for perfection, but perfection will not be achieved.
Innocent lives will be lost,” the ABC News quoted Leiter, as saying. “Just like
any other endeavour we will not stop all the attacks. To say that we will not
successfully defend against all attacks is certainly not to say that we are not
trying to stop all attacks, we are. It is certainly not to say that any attack
is OK. If there is an attack it may well be tragic. We have to be honest that
some things will get through.” “In this era of a more complicated threat, a more
diverse threat and lower-scale attacks to include individuals who have been radicalised
here in the homeland, stopping all the attacks has become that much harder,” he
added. Leiter further underscored that many Americans like Osman Mohamud find
inspiration online from Yemen-based American cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki. He described
Al-Awlaki as a dangerous threat, who is directly involved in planning attacks
on the US.
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