A NEW, SHARP WARNING – AT 11:16 A.M. ET:  Severe terror warnings are being issued by Britain and the United States.  From the Telegraph: 

Islamic State and other terrorist groups are planning to target aircraft as they aim to carry out another major attack on the scale of 9/11, a top US security official has said. 

Elaine Duke, acting US Homeland Security Secretary, said the groups were using smaller attacks to raise money and “keep their members engaged”.   

“The threat is still severe,” she said in London after meeting Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

“The terrorist organisations, be it Isis or al-Qaeda or others, want to have the big explosion like they did on 9/11. They want to take down aircraft, the intelligence is clear on that."

Britain and Europe have seen a string of crude attacks, from the ramming and stabbing attack on London Bridge to the homemade bomb in Manchester. 

“In the interim they need to keep their finances flowing and they need to keep their visibility high and they need to keep their members engaged, so they are using small plots and they are happy to have small plots,” Ms Duke said. 

“Creating terror is their goal. A bladed weapon attack causes terror and continues to disrupt the world but that does not mean they have given up on a major aviation plot.”

Ms Duke said the US and Britain would push social media firms at a meeting of G7 interior ministers this week to do more to tackle online militant material.

COMMENT:  It's not if, but when.  Are we ready?  Probably not.  Democracies are almost never ready.  If the Democrats get control of the federal government again, we certainly won't be ready.  And any terror attack will never be described honestly if the Dems are in power.  Remember that the terror attack at Fort Hood, carried out by a Muslim Army doctor, was described by the Obama administration as "workplace violence."   That's the party line.

We must prepare for another 9-11.  We must also prepare for the probability that terror groups in the future will have weapons of mass destruction.

October 19, 2017