President Obama Reassures Nation on Terrorism Fight in Rare Prime-Time Speach Fox News
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Obama’s address to US nation on security & California shooting (RT)

President Barack Obama on Sunday forcefully declared the shooting in San Bernardino, California, a terrorist attack and said the United States will overcome such threats with a relentless, strong and smart campaign against ISIS that is consistent with the nation's values.

"This was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people," Obama said during a rare prime-time televised speech from the Oval Office.

Obama, speaking from a podium in front of his desk in the Oval Office, said the couple that had carried out the San Bernardino attack had "gone down the dark path of radicalization" and embraced a "perverted version of Islam" that calls for a war against America and the West.

The address was designed to reassure Americans about the rising threat from the terrorism. It was delivered amid concerns that he does not have a plan sufficient to address the crisis, following the mass shooting in which 14 people were killed by a self-radicalized Muslim couple.

"The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us," Obama said, using an alternative name for the extremist group that has carved out a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq and now appears to be turning its sights on the West.

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