You know what's happening in Boston, who doesn't. It is the first successful attempt by Muslim extremists planting an Improvised Explosive Device on U.S. soil.
The I.E.D. threat first surfaced in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a weapon of choice for the insurgency. Extremists from Pakistan and Afghanistan even trained with the Iraqi Sunni insurgency and took what they learned to other hotspots - I.E.D's soon showed up in Afghanistan and Pakistan as popular weapons to kill U.S. troops and those supporting U.S. goals in the region.
We should not be surprised that the strategy is moving in our direction. There have been several attempts, the most recent in New York's Times Square to set off an I.E.D. - but the Boston Marathon bombing was the first successful such attack on U.S. soil.
Don't be surprised that it encourages other Islamic extremists in the U.S. to be more bold when it comes to setting I.E.D.'s anywhere in the country.
Our game of "Whack a Mole" against Americanized Islamic extremists just got a lot more serious.
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