Obama's ‘New Phase’ of Terror Threat Among Hardest to Defeat
- U.S. confronts evolving menace from lone-wolf extremists
- President seeks to assure nation after California attacks
Obama Vows U.S. Will Overcome Evolving Terror Threat
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President Barack Obama warned that the mass shooting in California last week showed the terrorist menace has evolved into a “new phase” of less sophisticated, harder to detect plots, while assuring the public that organizations like Islamic State that threaten the U.S. will be destroyed.
What Obama didn’t say is that this evolving threat is among the most difficult to stop.