TERROR WARNING – AT 10:55 A.M. ET:  New York's former, and colorful, police commissioner, warns of new terror attacks in the United States in the wake of the thwarted attack aboard a French passenger train.  From Newsmax: 

The bloodbath that was narrowly averted on Amsterdam-to-Paris commuter train last week was just one of the growing number of terror attacks occurring globally — and more are on the way, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says.

"This is going on worldwide.... We're seeing a constant increase of these types of events, whether it's here in the United States, whether it's in France or Spain or England," Kerik said Tuesday to J.D. Hayworth on "Newsmax Prime."

"ISIS, al-Qaida and all these radical extremist groups are using social media and the internet to recruit, to motivate, to inspire others, to do their dirty work. That's what we saw in this event.
"You're going to see much more like this to come and it's something we have to get used to. If anybody's surprised by it, they shouldn't be."

On Monday, French President Francois Hollande awarded France's highest honor to off-duty U.S. servicemen Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, their student friend Anthony Sadler, and Chris Norman, a British business consultant.

They tackled and tied up a 25-year-old Moroccan identified as Ayoub El Khazzani, who boarded the high-speed train wielding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Luger automatic pistol, ammunition, and a box-cutter. Authorities say the gunman had watched a jihadi video only minutes before.

"I don't think anybody really can grasp the amount of damage that could have been done had these three kids not been on that train and this guy jacked the first round into that gun and started shooting," Kerik said.

COMMENT:  We just had an attack in Chattanooga, but it didn't seem to bother Americans all that much.  I think it will take another mass-casualty event to wake us up, if even that will do it.  When these attacks in the U.S. do occur, much of the mainstream media goes into politically correct mode, telling us they really can't determine the motive of the shooter.  It's pathetic, and we go back to sleep.

August 26, 2015