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Homeland Security Chief: Threat to U.S. Malls "A New Phase" For Terrorists
(NPR) Scott Neuman - Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told CNN a video released by the Somali-based group al-Shabab "reflects [a] new phase" in which terrorist networks publicly call "for independent actors in their homelands to carry out attacks." Focusing on the deadly 2013 assault on a mall in Nairobi, the video says: "If just a handful of mujahedeen fighters could bring Kenya to a complete stand-still for nearly a week, then imagine what a dedicated mujahedeen in the West could do to the American or Jewish-owned shopping centers across the world....What if such an attack was to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota, or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, or in London's Oxford Street, or any of the hundred or so Jewish-owned Westfield shopping centers dotted right across the Western world?"