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President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday night, Dec. 6, 2015. The president announced no
significant shift in U.S. strategy and offered no new policy prescriptions for defeating the Islamic State, underscoring both his confidence in his current approach and
the lack of easy options for countering the extremist group.

(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Obama:

Terror Threat Against US Has Entered ‘New Phase’

JULIE PACE asking whether we are con- Obama said that while IS, underscoring both his
fronted by a cancer that there was no evidence that confidence in his current
AP White House Correspon- has no immediate cure,” the shooters were directed approach and the lack of
he said, speaking from a by a terror network over- easy options for countering
dent lectern in his West Wing of- seas or part of a broader the extremist group.
fice. “The threat from terror- plot, “the two of them had He did call for a review of
WASHINGTON (AP) ism is real, but we will over- gone down the dark path the visa waiver program for
come it,” he declared. of radicalization.” people seeking to come to
— In a rare Oval Of- The president’s speech fol- “This was an act of terrorism the U.S. and said he would
lowed Wednesday’s shoot- designed to kill innocent urge private companies
fice address, President ing in San Bernardino, Cali- people,” he said in the and law enforcement
fornia, that killed 14 people 13-minute address. leaders to work together
Barack Obama vowed and wounded 21. Authori- Obama’s speech was likely to ensure potential attack-
ties say a couple carried to leave his critics unsatis- ers can’t use technology to
Sunday night the United out the attack and the wife fied. He announced no evade detection.
pledged allegiance to the significant shift in strategy
States would overcome a Islamic State and its leader and offered no new policy Continued on Page 3
in a Facebook post. prescriptions for defeating
new terror threat that seeks

to “poison the minds” of

people here and around

the world, as he sought to

reassure Americans shaken

by recent attacks in Paris

and California.

“I know that after so much

war, many Americans are