The Department of Homeland Security is on the lookout for young Al-Qaeda members from Turkey who may be trying to enter the U.S. around the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, WorldNetDaily has reported. Radical Islamic web sites have recently reported that hundreds of young Turks were in Al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan.

The report also said that the FBI was monitoring 20,000 potential homegrown terrorists inside the United States, all of which are American citizens or permanent legal residents “Who have some kind of relationship with terrorist activity,” WorldNetDaily quoted Leonard Boyle, the head of the FBI’s Terrorism Screening Center as saying.

Over the summer ABC News reported that the Department of Homeland Security had declared a “Period of Heightened Alert” between August and July 2009 due to various events that terrorists may view as an opportunity to attack. Government agencies were ordered to review contingency plans to deal with potential attacks and were “asked to redouble efforts to study terrorism leads.”

There are no current plans to raise the national threat level above “yellow,” which means elevated.