The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were warning law enforcement Friday about the possibility of terrorist threats around the 4th of July, unnamed authorities told CNN Friday. Officials circulated a joint intelligence bulletin that does not discuss “any known active threats,” but does sound the alert about the potential for “heightened threats,” CNN reported.
Separately, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a public statement, expressing support for victims of the terrorist attacks that struck France, Tunisia, and Kuwait on Friday, while also urging vigilance in the U.S. “Particularly with the upcoming July 4th holiday, here in the United States the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI continue to communicate with state and local law enforcement about what we know and see,” Johnson stated. “We are encouraging all law enforcement to be vigilant and prepared.”
Johnson said that “all Americans” should continue to “attend public events and celebrate.”
Three separate terrorist attacks that occurred Friday within hours killed dozens of people abroad. The victims include at least 37 people left dead by a gunman at a resort in Tunisia, and at least 27 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Kuwait mosque. The first attack of the day occurred at a U.S.-owned gas facility in France, where authorities discovered one victim who was beheaded.
Although the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, claimed responsibility only for the Kuwait bombing, the other two attacks shared similarities with previous strikes by ISIS, raising the possibility of a coordinated strategy to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began June 17, International Business Times reported Friday.
ISIS expert Andrew Tabler, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told IBTimes earlier: “This is an indication of the way of the future, where you have multiple lone wolf attacks in multiple countries at the same time.” Tabler added that it is hard to defend against that type of attack.
According to the CNN report, federal law enforcement officials have stepped up arrests of suspected extremists in recent weeks, and the FBI has increased its surveillance of some ISIS suspects.
“… the possibility of terrorist threats around the 4th of July, unnamed authorities told CNN Friday.
UNNAMED AUTHORITIES???
HEY ROCKY, WATCH ME PULL A RABBIT OUTTA MY HAT!!!
gotta love this sh#t.
Hey NSA do your job your supposed to be listening to everything……well if that is so you know it all. Now do your job and stop spying on the rest of us. Your a joke in as much as we know what you are really about and it aint terrorism.
Hey, Susan! 🙂 How goes it?
Has CNN just admitted to engaging in purveying hearsay ( read: fear mongering ) ??? For anyone who believes this crap, I have a nice bridge on a dry lake in the Mojave desert for sale. Almost free for you today, 1/2 price, all profit . . .
You mean the fourth of July isn’t illegal yet? I’m sure there’s someone who’s offended by it. Maybe the BAR association?
yes, the American people are the terror threat. The fourth of July sounds like a nice day to storm the Bastille.
No coincidence the headline shooters are single crazies – no US government agency would ever use hypodermics and off-the-books drugs , right? I mean this isn’t a communist-run country yet , is it? Look at the Night Visiion shots they gave Recon troops in Nam, now their eyes are effed up and they get no VA coverage. Trust who?
I wrote something a few days ago, considering 4th of July or Sept 11.
It would make sense that ‘they’ attack us on our ‘Day of Freedom’, or to ‘show us that 9/11 is alive and well’…
Or some such drivel.
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“The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were warning law enforcement Friday about the possibility of terrorist threats around the 4th of July, unnamed authorities told CNN Friday. Officials circulated a joint intelligence bulletin that does not discuss “any known active threats,” but does sound the alert about the potential for “heightened threats,” CNN reported.”
Ahh….the yearly Independence Day (notice how they fail to mention “Independence Day” and call it “the 4th of July” to make people forget the true meaning of that day) terror threats. Same shit, different year. “Be afraid on Independence Day!” You know, that day that you celebrate your independence from a tyrannical government hell bent on controlling you! Oh wait! That’s what we have now, isn’t it?
Stupid sheeple.
“unnamed authorities told CNN Friday.”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Unnamed authorities told CNN. That’s hilarious.
Hey everyone, just so you know, also an unidentified flying object with megaspeakers told CNN’s this. In addition to that, a cousin’s former roommate of one of CNN’s reporters told CNN this and oh yea, an unnamed rabbit in Wonderland told CNN this.
Hey, I have a bunch of “unnamed authorities” who told CNN that no one in this country believes their shit anymore. SO KISS MY ASS!!! 😡