US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that there are no “specific” and “credible” terror threats against Americans as the country enters this year’s Thanksgiving holidays.
“As we go into Thanksgiving weekend, I want the American people to know is that we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe,” Obama said in a televised statement from the White House.
“Right now, we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. And that is based on the latest information that I just received in the Situation Room,” he added.
The US president made the remarks after meeting his national security aides to get the latest updates on the coordinated attacks in and around the French capital that killed 130 people.
Elsewhere, Obama admitted that the American public’s fear about a Paris-like attack on US mainland over the holidays is understandable.
“I know that families have discussed their fears about the threat of terrorism around the dinner table, many for the first time since September 11th,” he said. “Watching the events in Paris made the threat feel closer to home.”
Obama still reassured American people that despite the prevalence of terror in today’s world, they should not be worried as “we are both equipped to prevent attacks and we are resilient in the face of those who would try to do us harm.”
On Tuesday, Obama met with visiting French president Francois Hollande. The two heads of state called upon all western nations to step up their commitments in the fight against Daesh.
The US president’s pledge of security and resilience in the face of terror follows a series of videos by Daesh that threatened various American cities with bombing.
It is worth mentioning that only one day before the Paris attacks, Obama made a similar statement, claiming that the terror organization was “contained” by the US military. – Press TV.
