Coming Apart At The Seams

I came across an interesting article today concerning the internal protection of our country from the forces that would want us done away with.

Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday.The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including "clean" recruits with a negligible trail of terrorist contacts, CIA Director Leon Panetta said.

The chilling warning comes as Christmas Day airline attack suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutullab is cooperating with federal investigators, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.Al-Qaida is also inspiring homegrown extremists to trigger violence on their own,

Panetta said.The annual assessment of the nation's terror threats provided no startling new terror trends, but amplified growing concerns since the Christmas Day airline attack in Detroit that militants are growing harder to detect and moving more quickly in their plots."The biggest threat is not so much that we face an attack like 9/11. It is that al-Qaida is adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect," Panetta told the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Several senators tangled over whether suspected terrorists should be tried in civilian or military court. At the same time, a group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced legislation that would force the Obama administration to backtrack on its plans to try Sept. 11 defendants in federal court in New York and use military tribunals instead.

As al-Qaida presses new terror plots, it is increasingly relying on new recruits with minimal training and simple devices to carry out attacks, Panetta said as part of the terror assessment to Congress.Panetta also warned of the danger of extremists acting alone: "It's the lone-wolf strategy that I think we have to pay attention to as the main threat to this country," he said.

And then I am reminded that Rome fell from within. When we see what is happening in our homes and marriages, our schools, our country, you could say that we are "coming apart at the seams." Our only 'hope' is to look up, 'for our redemption is drawing nigh.'

Well, we are coming close to our departure date for our trip to Israel, and walking in the paths of our Lord. Please keep us in your prayers fo safty, and good health of all going. I am hoping to give updates along the way.

We are looking forward to another Lord's day as we worship together, Sunday. remember to keep looking up, for truly "today would be a beautiful day to fly."