Bombs Across the Ocean?

An explosion in San Diego suggests Iranian retaliation

How long is the reach of foreign terrorists? For years the FBI as well as private U.S. experts has offered a soothing answer: while Americans abroad are vulnerable, there is little danger at home. But last week Oliver Revell, the FBI's second ranking official, told a congressional subcommittee that a "hard core" of 300 among the more than 10,000 Iranians who have come to the U.S. as students bear careful watching. Some, he said, are members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard whose real interests are far from academic.

Two days after Revell's warning in Washington, Sharon Rogers, wife of U.S. Navy Captain...

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