Welcome to Reality: Obama Threatened By Somali Islamists

The domestic media will run with anything resembling a threat from some crackpot white supremacists or old friends of Robert Byrd, but you see scant mention of terror threats such as this from any American media outlets.

They just don't want to believe it. Safely ensconced in their fantasy bubble, they want to cling to the magic unicorns.

Officials would say little about the potential terrorist threat attributed to al-Shabah, an Islamist group that emerged in a two-year-old struggle for power in Somalia and is classified as a foreign terrorist group by the US State Department.

Some Somalis living in the United States were recently reported to have returned home for training by the group, officials said.

"The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (including the USSS) and the intelligence community are coordinating with other law enforcement authorities to investigate and analyse recently received information about a potential threat on inauguration day," Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said.

"Authorities at all levels are vigorously pursuing any lead relating to this threat information," Knocke said, adding Obama's transition team had been briefed.