Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home

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Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home

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What is the danger that improvised explosive devices – the sorts of roadside bombs routinely used in Afghanistan, for example – could be used on highway overpasses in the United States?

And could these IED’s be used in combination with a cyber attack – a terrorist who might use, say, a cyber-trigger to detonate a roadside bomb?

As the war in Afghanistan winds down, US military officials are wrestling with these questions – and how to take the lessons they have learned overseas and apply them to defense of the homeland.

“It is clear the IED is the primary weapon of choice” for terrorist networks and, as a result, “is one of the enduring operational and domestic security challenges for the foreseeable future,” says Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Organization. “The domestic IED threat from both homegrown extremists and global threat networks is real and presents a significant security challenge for the United States.”

Since 2007, IED incidents outside of Iraq and Afghanistan have increased to more than 500 per month. The United States is among the five countries who have had the greatest number of IED events since January 2011, Barbero told a House Homeland Security subcommittee this month. This includes more than 10,000 attacks in 112 countries – rounding out the top five are Colombia, Pakistan, India, and Syria – executed by 40 regional and international terrorist networks.

In the US, some of these attempted attacks include the attempted underwear bombing of Christmas 2009, as well as the Times Square car bombing in 2010. There were also ink cartridges packed with explosives aboard two separate cargo planes the same year, a lesser-reported but similarly thwarted event.

“These attempts clearly demonstrate the commitment of these threat networks to continue to employ IEDs against our homeland in traditional as well as new and creative ways,” General Barbero told lawmakers in public testimony before the subcommittee adjourned to a closed session.

Many of these IEDs are made with calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN), the key ingredient in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 in 1995. It has also been a bane to US troops in Afghanistan, who routinely face explosions from roadside bombs made with CAN smuggled in from Pakistan (the material is outlawed in Afghanistan).

Now, US officials are using databases from IED investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan to track potential terrorists in the United States. US military officials say that last year, law enforcement agents were able to arrest two Iraqi nationals on federal terrorism charges in Bowling Green, Ky.

This happened after the FBI used US military biometric information gathered in a joint FBI-Pentagon database to link one of the Iraqis to an unsolved IED attack in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. “This is a textbook example,” Barbero told lawmakers, of how the US military is helping to counter the threat of IED attacks on US soil.

Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home - CSMonitor.com
 
We better set up TSA Checkpoints and have Drones flying 24/7 right away!

The Pentagon says it, so it must be true! :uhoh3:

Waiting for the brainwashed Military types to come in here and say "That's Freedom! God Bless America!".
 
We better set up TSA Checkpoints and have Drones flying 24/7 right away!

The Pentagon says it, so it must be true! :uhoh3:

Waiting for the brainwashed Military types to come in here and say "That's Freedom! God Bless America!".

No shit - a drone flew over our place the other day. About 500 feet up. The freakiest thing I ever saw.

I told my wife about it - about two hours later - we were sitting out back.

She's got this "yeah right" look on her face.

Just them - I shit you not - the damned thing flew over again in the opposite direction, back to it's home base, wherever the fuck that is.

My guess - Pax River, Md.
 
Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home

0717-IED-THREAT-sized.jpg_full_380.jpg


What is the danger that improvised explosive devices – the sorts of roadside bombs routinely used in Afghanistan, for example – could be used on highway overpasses in the United States?

And could these IED’s be used in combination with a cyber attack – a terrorist who might use, say, a cyber-trigger to detonate a roadside bomb?

As the war in Afghanistan winds down, US military officials are wrestling with these questions – and how to take the lessons they have learned overseas and apply them to defense of the homeland.

“It is clear the IED is the primary weapon of choice” for terrorist networks and, as a result, “is one of the enduring operational and domestic security challenges for the foreseeable future,” says Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Organization. “The domestic IED threat from both homegrown extremists and global threat networks is real and presents a significant security challenge for the United States.”

Since 2007, IED incidents outside of Iraq and Afghanistan have increased to more than 500 per month. The United States is among the five countries who have had the greatest number of IED events since January 2011, Barbero told a House Homeland Security subcommittee this month. This includes more than 10,000 attacks in 112 countries – rounding out the top five are Colombia, Pakistan, India, and Syria – executed by 40 regional and international terrorist networks.

In the US, some of these attempted attacks include the attempted underwear bombing of Christmas 2009, as well as the Times Square car bombing in 2010. There were also ink cartridges packed with explosives aboard two separate cargo planes the same year, a lesser-reported but similarly thwarted event.

“These attempts clearly demonstrate the commitment of these threat networks to continue to employ IEDs against our homeland in traditional as well as new and creative ways,” General Barbero told lawmakers in public testimony before the subcommittee adjourned to a closed session.

Many of these IEDs are made with calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN), the key ingredient in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 in 1995. It has also been a bane to US troops in Afghanistan, who routinely face explosions from roadside bombs made with CAN smuggled in from Pakistan (the material is outlawed in Afghanistan).

Now, US officials are using databases from IED investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan to track potential terrorists in the United States. US military officials say that last year, law enforcement agents were able to arrest two Iraqi nationals on federal terrorism charges in Bowling Green, Ky.

This happened after the FBI used US military biometric information gathered in a joint FBI-Pentagon database to link one of the Iraqis to an unsolved IED attack in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. “This is a textbook example,” Barbero told lawmakers, of how the US military is helping to counter the threat of IED attacks on US soil.

Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home - CSMonitor.com

We had what was classified as an IED placed at a parade here by an American citizen.

"Suffice it to say it was of grave concern," Frank Harrill, special agent in the charge of the Spokane FBI office, told NBC News.
"You could describe it as an improvised destructive device ... or improvised explosive device."
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The FBI has not established an official motive, but Harrill told NBC News "the timing and placement of the backpack (along the march route) is inescapable."

Courtesy FBI
The FBI is seeking information connected to the identity of the person or persons seen with this Swiss Army-brand backpack.
"At that point, it falls directly in the realm and sphere of domestic terrorism," Harrill told the Associated Press. "Clearly, there was some political or social agenda here."
FBI: Spokane bomb is 'domestic terrorism' - US news - Crime & courts - NBCNews.com

The wackos that live up in the mountains around here scare me more than Muslim terrorists.
 
Yet another pretext to turn screws on your "freedoms" and "democracy"! Bravo! :clap2:
Yep..The government doesn't have to worry about IED's
being used against it here at home, until they come to try and disarm patriotic Americans, then I'm sure all bets are off.
On a related topic,
Not a good sign that "homelend" is and has been buying ammo
like mad. They are either storing up for use on Americans, or an expected price increase is in the works due to tighter regulations being imposed soon....or do they expect mass riots and protests as a result of some more serious totalitarian actions against us?
 
What kind of explosives did the radical left "weatherman" use to blow up corporate headquarters, police departments, Military recruitment centers and their own sorry asses? Anybody in Homeland Security think about asking Obama's political mentor Bill Ayers?
 
If there was any real threat from IEDs in America, wouldn't it have happened in the past decade during the war on terrorists?
 
If there was any real threat from IEDs in America, wouldn't it have happened in the past decade during the war on terrorists?

The attempts have been discovered and stopped or failed beacuse of poor bob making skills.

What amazes me is that the Military is concerned about foreign terrorists but does absolutely nothing to convince the Government our open southern border is not a problem.

If either party were real concerned they would take real steps to seal the border. Whom ever is in charge when the terrorists do start blowing up Americans will be asked that question.
 
We all know why Obama has done nothin to secure the border nor deal with the horrible illegal immagrent issues we have but that's besides the point. When u have the mayor of Chicago tellin gangbangers to take their violence into the alley and not near the children of the city instead of actually crackin down on the violence, then you can't seem to think they'll actually finally do somethin bout the border, not to mention all the violence IN the border states.

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Its no wonder that with how horrible millions of Americans are and have been livin for years that we don't have more of the so called "home-grown" terrorisum. Its a shame and its hard to imagine what the country will look like once my daughter and son get older..
 

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