Fight Them There Or Fight Them Here

Recent testimony from the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency ought to help clear up whatever doubt may linger about that proposition (though the pre-SOTU timing is unquestionably questionable).  (HT: Hot Air)

Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new attack on American soil.

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members of al Qaeda six months ago "revealed [AQI] was planning terrorist operations in the U.S."
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"This appears to be the first hard evidence al Qaeda in Iraq was trying to attack us here at home," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, former chief counterterrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council.

Officials clarified that there is no evidence of an imminent attack and there's no indication that the suspects made it to the United States, thanks to the plan being uncovered early.

The hunt for suspects continues, however, and some fear that al Qaeda recruits in Iraq could be easily redirected.

"Anyone willing to go to Iraq to fight American troops is probably willing to try to come to the United States," Clarke said.

What was it Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi said about the President's contention that al Qaeda was fueling the insurgency in Iraq as of November 2006?

My response on the president's representations are well known. But the 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.

Nan might just have to feel sad again tomorrow night in front of the whole world, during her behind-the-President debut at the State of the Union, assuming this momentous new information is "resorted to".