No specific and credible terror threat to US: Obama

November 25, 2015 23:35

US President Barack Obama today assured Americans of their safety and security ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday season by stating that currently there is "no specific and credible" intelligence threat of terrorist attack.

"As of today, we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. We are both equipped to prevent attacks, and resilient in the face of those who would try to do us harm," Obama said soon after his meeting with his top national security advisors.

Referring to the Paris attacks, Obama said: "It's understandable that people worry something similar could happen here. Watching the events in Paris made the threat feel closer to home. "So 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 told his countrymen in a live address from the White House.

He reiterated that the US is going after IS wherever it hides. "That's been our strategy for more than a year. I'll speak about this in more detail in the coming weeks, but let me remind the American people of what our coalition of some 65 nations is doing to destroy these terrorists and defeat their ideology," he said.

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