Neo-Nazi threats as great a worry as Al Qaeda?
With the presidential election only days away, federal officials are looking closely for any uptick in threats to presidential candidates from white supremacist or other extremist groups. But in contrast to the pre-election atmosphere of four years ago, U.S. agencies have picked up little "chatter" about looming Islamic terror plots—and scant indications of any imminent pre-election messages from
Al Qaeda leaders like
Osama bin Laden.
Earlier this week, authorities announced they had busted up a far-fetched plot directed at Democratic candidate
Barack Obama by two young "skinhead" racists in Tennessee. That case, along with a similar extremist plot broken up before the
Democratic Party convention in Denver and the recent arrest of a neo-Nazi leader in Virginia, have pointed up the extent to which the government is paying attention to the threat to Obama from far-right extremist factions. "I don't know that we're seeing a resurgence of these groups,"
Michael Ward, deputy assistant
FBI director for counterterrorism, told NEWSWEEK. "But we are seeing an increase in rhetoric."
Terror Watch: Neo-Nazis and Obama | Newsweek Voices - Terror Watch | Newsweek.com
I say we pull our troops out of the ME and re-deploy them to the Divided States of America?
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