Grid Jihad

2014-09-03

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The beheading yesterday of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, suggests a lot more of such barbaric depravity is coming at the hands of jihadists trying to impose worldwide their supremacist Islamic shariah code. But what if such terrorists try to decapitate our country – especially if, in the process, they could achieve the near-term death of millions of us? National security experts convening today at the Na...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The beheading yesterday of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, suggests a lot more of such barbaric depravity is coming at the hands of jihadists trying to impose worldwide their supremacist Islamic shariah code.

But what if such terrorists try to decapitate our country – especially if, in the process, they could achieve the near-term death of millions of us? National security experts convening today at the National Press Club in Washington worry that’s just what the jihadists have in mind should the Islamic State’s next target prove to be our highly vulnerable electric grid.

If we are to prevent more – and far worse – acts of violence at the hands of these global jihadists, we had better make it our explicit purpose to defeat them all, by securing our people and our grid.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at Secure Freedom.org.

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