Terror threat

‘Super Bowl for terrorists’ keeps US Homeland Security ‘literally awake at night’

US Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly has admitted he has no idea how to stop homegrown terrorists, despite acknowledging it is the “most common” threat facing the US. Kelly said the threat of an airplane terror attack keeps him “awake at night,” and that it would be like the “Super Bowl” for terrorists.

Kelly appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and was asked what the US could learn from the police shooting in Paris last week, which was claimed by ISIS.

He also said the threat against aviation “keeps me literally awake at night.” 

“We know that would be the Super Bowl for the terrorists to knock down an airplane in flight, particularly if it was full of Americans,” he said.