LARRY KUDLOW:
President Bush remembering 9/11. We've been safe for seven years. That is a real blessing. But what is the terrorist risk assessment today? We welcome back our friend Steve Emerson, NBC news terrorist analyst, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Steve Emerson, thank you for coming back on. You know, seven years safe is a remarkable, remarkable achievement. And I was just thinking, let's see, we've foiled or fended off possible terrorist plots. I'm listing Buffalo, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Miami. You may have others, but I guess I want to ask you, what is the terrorist threat out there, what is the risk assessment, and is America complacent right now?
STEVE EMERSON:
Larry, that's a great question. Law enforcement has done a great job in preventing, interdicting and stopping scores of terrorist plots since 9/11. Unfortunately, it doesn't resonate with the public because those events don't transpire, so the public doesn't see what could have happened had law enforcement failed. But the real threat, as I see it today, is not coming only from Al Qaeda and radical Islamic groups that are inspired by Al Qaeda, and Britain certainly is most certainly afflicted with this, the airline plot and the 7/11 attacks a couple of years ago, but it comes from radical jihadists that are carrying out a slow jihad best said by Yusuf al Qaradawi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who said "we will conquer America, not by the sword but by dawah," which is conversion, proselytization and the ballot box. Video
President Bush remembering 9/11. We've been safe for seven years. That is a real blessing. But what is the terrorist risk assessment today? We welcome back our friend Steve Emerson, NBC news terrorist analyst, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Steve Emerson, thank you for coming back on. You know, seven years safe is a remarkable, remarkable achievement. And I was just thinking, let's see, we've foiled or fended off possible terrorist plots. I'm listing Buffalo, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Miami. You may have others, but I guess I want to ask you, what is the terrorist threat out there, what is the risk assessment, and is America complacent right now?
STEVE EMERSON:
Larry, that's a great question. Law enforcement has done a great job in preventing, interdicting and stopping scores of terrorist plots since 9/11. Unfortunately, it doesn't resonate with the public because those events don't transpire, so the public doesn't see what could have happened had law enforcement failed. But the real threat, as I see it today, is not coming only from Al Qaeda and radical Islamic groups that are inspired by Al Qaeda, and Britain certainly is most certainly afflicted with this, the airline plot and the 7/11 attacks a couple of years ago, but it comes from radical jihadists that are carrying out a slow jihad best said by Yusuf al Qaradawi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who said "we will conquer America, not by the sword but by dawah," which is conversion, proselytization and the ballot box. Video
Source: CNBC
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