Another Dam Threat

... But the ruckus raised over the closure of the Dillon Dam road provides a prime opportunity to re-examine the ability of jihadist militants to operate inside the United States, and to look at the types of targets militants might be most likely to select for an attack. ... To assess a threat against a potential target like the Dillon Dam, several important tactical realities must be considered. The first is that as long as the ideology of jihadism exists and at least some jihadist militants embrace the philosophy of attacking the “far enemy” — aka the United States — there will be some threat of attacks against targets on U.S. soil. Indeed, there has not been a time since 1990 when some group of jihadists somewhere was not plotting such an attack. ...

Prison security breach alarms U.S.

LONDON – Jonathan Evans, the chief of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency, has been asked to explain by furious U.S. counter-terrorism chiefs how radical cleric Abu Hamza, who is wanted by the U.S. Justice Department to face charges of a global conspiracy to wage jihad against the United States, was able to send murderous messages to al-Qaida's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri,...