Terrorist Organization al-Nusra Front Wants to Attack the U.S.

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Al-Nusra Front, a terrorist organization that remains relatively unknown in the West, has designs to attack the United States.  The news came in the form of testimony by way of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clapper said that the organization “does have aspirations for attacks on the homeland.”

One of the newest terrorists factions to come out of the ongoing civil war in Syria, al-Nusra Front has come to the attention of counterterrorism experts in recent months for a series of attacks inside Syria. In a civil war that has created more alliances and infighting between factions than any other in recent memory, al-Nusra Front has steadily gained power and influence as war between rebels and the troops loyal to President Bashar Assad has continued over the passed few years. The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius characterized al-Nusra Front as one of the most “successful and aggressive” fighting groups to come out of the civil war in Syria.

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Since the announcement of its creation in January 2012 to its  official blacklisting by the United Nations in May 2013, al-Nusra Front has shaped itself into a terrorist organization to be feared.

U.S. Intelligence officials believe that conditions in Syria have created fertile ground for terrorist organizations looking to recruit and train a new generation of fighters from the disenfranchised and affected population of the country and through the attraction of rebel fighters outside Syria hoping to create an Islamic state.

U.S. government official reports estimate the total number of al-Nusra Front’s forces may be as many as 10,000 people. However, an Israeli intelligence official speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity last month said the number of fighters linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria may be closer to 30,000.

At the beginning of February, the organization claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Lebanon that killed four people. As many as 28 others were injured in the blast at a crowded gas station only about 20 miles from the Syrian border.

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A few days later, another suicide bomber detonated his belt carrying five kilograms of explosives in a passenger van on the western side of Syria just a few miles south of Beirut and a few feet short of a Hezbollah military checkpoint. The blast injured two people and killed the bomber.

While anti-terrorism forces in the United States and abroad have been able to thwart many large-scale terrorist plots, the nature of the attacks, like the mall shootings last September in Kenya, have become increasingly more sporadic and low-key, but no less gruesome or devastating. U.S. intelligence officials say that these kinds of attacks are far more difficult to detect and therefore prevent.

Add to the uneasiness of the situation an antiterrorism community significantly hobbled by dramatic cuts in its operating budget, which Congress approved in 2013, and the threat of an attack by al-Nusra Front or any other terrorist faction is significantly increased.

Thus far, the organization has focused its attacks on the Syrian region. However, it has been making inroads into other countries focusing the majority of its attention on neighboring Lebanon, where Hezbollah has sustained a military campaign against Syrian rebels fighting against the forces of President Bashar Assad.

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