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Israel Warns U.S. Jews: Iran Could Strike in North America
(ABC News) Richard Esposito - Israeli facilities in North America - and around the world - are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. "We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase...on both our guarded sites and 'soft' sites," stated a letter circulated by the head of security for the Consul General for the Mid-Atlantic States. Guarded sites refers to government facilities like embassies and consulates, while "soft sites" means Jewish synagogues and schools, as well as community centers like the one hit by a terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people. One federal official said, "The thwarted assassination plot of a Saudi official in Washington, D.C., a couple of months ago was an important data point, in that it showed at least parts of the Iranian establishment were aware of the intended event and were not concerned about inevitable collateral damage to U.S. citizens had they carried out an assassination plot on American soil." "We operate according to the information that Iran and Hizbullah are working hard and with great intensity to release a 'quality' attack against Israeli/Jewish sites around the world," the Israeli security letter concludes.