Tuesday, June 2, 2015

“New FBI official: Terror threat in Ohio is surprising,”



The new head of the FBI's wide-ranging Cincinnati division says the threat of homegrown terrorists in her native state is surprising and scary. - AP

Byers told The Associated Press in an interview she was surprised at the threat level in Ohio, and she suspects many people in the Midwest don't realize that "violent extremists" can pop up anywhere.

"It's scary. And it's scary to us. I'm not sure the general public quite gets the gravity of it," she said.

She said counterterrorism efforts are ongoing in her office, although she couldn't comment on any possible other cases.

"It seems like once we get one guy, another guy pops up high on the radar," she said. "We just keep moving from one to the next."