DAR AL HARB - U.S.A.: AMERICA'S HOMEGROWN ISLAMIC JIHAD HAS BEEN DUBBED "PEPSI JIHAD"

Well, I think that the Pepsi people should be damned upset that these politically correct half-wits have called America's homegrown terrorism problem the "PEPSI JIHAD"...

Melting Pot Helps Fight "Pepsi Jihad"
Intelligence Officials Say America's Inclusiveness Helps To Dampen Terror Risks

Though the United States is not immune to the grass-roots extremism that has inspired attacks in Europe, the inclusiveness of American society may help against radical Islam's spread here, intelligence officials said Thursday.

Philip Mudd, a senior official in the FBI's National Security Branch, termed the U.S. domestic threat a "Pepsi jihad" — an outgrowth of extremism he said has spread among young people over the past 15 years and has been popularized by the Internet.

"We see in this country on the East Coast, on the West Coast and the center of this country — kids who have no contact with al Qaeda but who are radicalized by the ideology," Mudd said.

Dipping into subject matter that is unusual for intelligence professionals, Mudd and CIA Director Michael Hayden agreed that the United States needs to preserve its melting-pot heritage to help reduce the threat.

The country's history as an immigrant nation and its "experience with bringing in various groups and giving them, frankly, more opportunity than they might have elsewhere has helped us immeasurably" in dampening extremism, Hayden said.

[Fools, the only reason that jihad is not yet a huge threat in the United States as it is in Europe is because Americans are ARMED and will shoot a jihadist if they have a reason to do it and because there are 300 million Americans and maybe 4 million moslems, they are outnumbered and are not yet strong enough to cause problems...Fools the whole lot of them...ed. A.I.]

The assessment came during the intelligence leaders' wide-ranging annual review of global threats before the House Intelligence Committee. Five top intelligence officials covered issues from Iran and Iraq to government eavesdropping and al Qaeda.

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The lawmakers pressed the intelligence officials on Iranian intentions.

Hayden said Tehran has a substantial presence in Iraq — "not just diplomatic or commercial, but representatives of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian intelligence service."

While U.S. analysts once put a less hostile face on Iranian efforts, "I've come to a much darker interpretation of Iranian actions in the past 12 to 18 months," Hayden said.

Now, he believes, the Iranians want to punish the United States and tie it down in Iraq so its options in the region — and against Iran — are limited.

Negroponte said Iran since 2003 has been emboldened by the situation in Iraq and the end of Saddam Hussein's rule, its increased oil revenues and other factors. The United States believes that Iran still considers the threat of terrorism a key element of its national security strategy.

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So does that mean that the United States of America is going to drop everything when the mullahs of Iran threaten one of America's allies with a nuke attack?!? A little nuclear blackmail in the future, not that this is a great surprise to me...

WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! !

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1) Melting Pot Helps Fight "Pepsi Jihad"