A decade after the 9/11 attacks, a “lone wolf terrorist” like the shooter in Norway now presents a bigger risk to the United States than a large-scale operation, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday.
“The most likely scenario that we have to guard against right now ends up being more of a lone wolf operation than a large, well-coordinated terrorist attack,” Obama told reporters.
Obama described “extraordinary progress” in degrading al Qaeda, the group behind the September 11, 2001 hijackings whose leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in May.
Obama made no distinction between the Norway shooter and the numerous Islamic terror attacks and attempted attacks here in the United States. Nor did the President provide an explanation as to how 83 terror attacks around the world resulting in the death of 321 innocent people this month ( August, 2011) by Islamic Terrorists could translate into “extraordinary progress” in the war on terror.
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