[ May 1, 2024 ]
Nothing to see here folks — that is until body parts litter the streets and then the sharia-complaint enemedia lapdogs will blame the “islamophobes.”
Domestic ISIS Arrests Are on the Rise Again
Terror arrests have doubled since 2018
Police have arrested more than twice the number of domestic ISIS terrorists and sympathizers in the first eight months of this year than they charged in all of 2018.
The FBI and local police departments have arrested 24 people for ISIS-related offenses as of Sept. 3, according to data assembled by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (POE). That arrest count—which includes individuals who attempted to travel to fight for the group overseas, provide material support for its efforts, or kill Americans in a terrorist attack—dwarfs the 11 arrests made in 2018. Authorities are on pace to exceed the 38 arrests made in 2017.
Andrew Mines, the research fellow responsible for the statistics, emphasized that a “small sample of individuals” prevents scholars from reaching statistically significant conclusions from his data set. Nevertheless, he said the uptick could be related to a shift in ISIS strategy as it transitions from a territorial entity focused on Syria and Iraq to a more decentralized terrorist organization.
“ISIS’s messaging received a revamp with the end of the physical caliphate,” Mines told the Washington Free Beacon. “They were taking a lot of hard hits throughout 2018 but with this kind of steady decline and now this resurgence through different affiliates through the globe, the messaging now is both remaining but also expanding, spreading throughout the globe.”
The U.S.-led coalition successfully annihilated ISIS as a territorial entity in 2019, prompting President Donald Trump to declare victory over the terror group. While coalition efforts destroyed the organization’s home base in Iraq and Syria, ISIS remains a persistent threat across the globe, with affiliates launching terror attacks in countries including Sri Lanka, Russia, and the Philippines. A 2018 White House white paper acknowledged that “ISIS remains the foremost radical Islamist terrorist group and the primary transnational terrorist threat to the United States.”
“Despite many setbacks, ISIS maintains a sophisticated and durable media and online presence that allows it to encourage and enable sympathizers worldwide to conduct dozens of attacks within target countries, including the United States,” the White House wrote. “The increase in attacks by persons mobilized to violence in the United States underscores the ability of ISIS to inspire terrorist attacks.”
The data also showed that ISIS sympathizers in the United States are shifting their interest away from attempting to travel to join the fight to committing acts of terror at home. More than 75 percent of offenders were charged for attempting to join the caliphate in 2014 compared to 36 percent in 2018. Domestic terror plots have meanwhile jumped from 12 to 45 percent of total arrests during that span of time.
Counterintuitively, coalition success might be driving this change in behavior, according to Mines.
“When that [ISIS] territory is shrinking and the international community is closing down the gateways and becoming a lot more savvy with how individuals are able to use different travel routes and entry points into countries [with ISIS presence,] … the messaging from the top is going to be that domestic attacks are a more viable option,” Mines said.
The program published court documents related to 18 of the 24 arrests this year. While some of the charges were for non-violent offenses such as violating a plea agreement or contacting ISIS affiliates, many arrests involved some violent plots that aimed to strike at prominent symbols of American life.
For instance, Asiqul Alam, a 22-year-old green card holder from Bangladesh, plotted to attack Times Square armed with a Glock semi-automatic pistol and a suicide vest. He said he wanted to “die fighting like a man,” according to the criminal complaint. Meanwhile another man, a refugee from Syria living in Philadelphia, sought to bomb a non-denominational local church.
In one case, the arrested suspect was a former U.S. Army infantryman. Mark Domingo, who was deployed in Afghanistan for several months, plotted to bomb a Nazi rally in Long Beach, Calif., by using an Improvised Explosive Device.
“America needs another vegas event tbh something to kick off civil unrest,” Domingo wrote online referring to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that killed 59 people, according to court documents.
A commonality between these planned U.S. attacks is that they are usually amateur attempts by young men inspired by ISIS propaganda, according to James Carafano, a national security expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Few, if any, offenders appear to be professional organizers who directly received orders from ISIS to plan terror attacks.
“We’re not seeing anything like 9/11-style planning, which would be a real red flag. We’re not seeing sleeper cells or guys being shipped over here to organize activities,” Carafano said.
ISIS is now “resurging” in Syria after the Trump administration decided to decrease troop levels in the war-torn country, according to an August report published by the Defense Department’s internal watchdog.
“Despite losing its territorial ‘caliphate,’ the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) solidified its insurgent capabilities in Iraq and was resurging in Syria this quarter,” the report said.
No ISIS-linked jihadist has succeeded in carrying out an attack in the United States since 2017. This is because U.S. counterterrorism operations have successfully adapted to the persistent terrorist threat over the last two decades, foiling most plans well in advance.
“It’s not an exact science, but the FBI has got this class of individual pretty locked down,” Mines said. “I think giving the FBI the tools to both investigate individuals at home and also inserting themselves earlier on in the pipeline and be in chatrooms … that these people are interested in, and inserting themselves into that scene, has been really effective for the FBI in the last two, three years or so.”
Carafano said U.S. authorities must remain vigilant against radical Islamic threats even as law enforcement is facing calls to shift its focus to domestic terrorism linked to white supremacists.
“We have to stop playing politics with domestic terrorism,” Carafano said. “You see this huge movement on the left that wants to say ‘oh we are seeing much more domestic terrorist attacks from white supremacists.’ Part of the reason we are seeing that is we are very good at targeting transnational threats. We have to keep doing that, not take the focus off that important national security threat.”
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19 Comments
4 years ago
Surveyors levels are always mounted on tripods for good reason, however steep the terrain, the thing can be leveled and true readings obtained.
This is important when plotting various features to use later because it ensures a clear picture emerges.
An increase in arrests to 24 while welcome is one thing, a conviction for terrorist intent or actions is another, a deterrent of a sentence a third, much like the surveyors tripod and level, if you seek to measure where and what it is that’s facing you, you need those three “legs” of public policy and approval to be firmly established.
For the interested, those figures are only going to go one way {if western Europe is anything to go by}, upwards, and that will increase the shouting from those progressives using immigration and tolerance for the intolerable to demand evermore concessions to placate the guilty ones on jihad while our societies are steadily undermined.
A four year election cycle is too short for a useful and good POTUS {and too long for a bad one} so therefore it’s going to need a succession of “good” presidents bent to the same task over many years to ensure the remedy to this problem sticks.
This looks unlikely, not just stateside but everywhere else. The jihad is intended to last another 80 years, I do wonder what the end game will look like during that time.
A PC imposed silence in most corners of public life is not a good start.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Not sure a crystal ball would reveal a world to our liking – me thinks not – muslims are being used..
4 years ago
Liberals LOVE TERRORISM,…. helps them implement their control agenda FASTER !!!
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
They are all terrorist or they support terrorist!!! There is no in between!!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
They were terrorists before they got here. Leftist morons want to import that garbage to bring down the US.
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
One tyrant to another – muslims are being used – a means to an end…
4 years ago
Reply to
volksnut
Cornerstone of western civilization is Judeo-Christianity – what better way to undermine the civilization – which muslims are ” dedicated ” to doing by their own admission than to remove that particular cornerstone by any and all means – Every mosque in this country as well as thru out western civilization needs to be shutdown until whatever time muslims are willing to let a Christian Church and or Jewish Synagogue be built on a one for one exchange basis in a muslim country – without threat of punishment of harassment – It’ll be a REAL cold day in hell – But until it does deport them all – Fuc- cair and the rest of the bozos –
4 years ago
That’s all a muslim can contribute to any society,,killing, destruction and rapes!!!! Nothing but feral animals that require extinction from the universe!!!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
patd
I live where I can carry 24/7 so they don’t try their crap down here….funny how that happens isn’t it? They are too scared to attack people that can defend themselves. There would be 4 more french LEO alive today if they had been allowed to carry a weapon.
4 years ago
When will our government finally understand that Islam should be banned from our country and the planet. Time to unleash those who have hunted Muslims before…..
4 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Good luck with that. D’s and RINOs will never act. Romney? Graham? The list is too long for me to type. I know, I’m lazy.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bill
And the clown Left/liberal Pope wants christians to take in more of these Islamic wolves http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
Insane or stupid ?
4 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Won’t as long as there are ignorant parasitic libturds sitting in political positions.
4 years ago
Too bad enough leftists don’t get bitten by their islamic pets.
4 years ago
But remember we have white nationalist islamophobe NRA members to be ” concerned ” about
4 years ago
While I almost always support and agree with the Heritage Foundation, on this particular finding I vehemently disagree: “…amateur attempts by young men inspired by ISIS propaganda, according to James Carafano, a national security expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.”
The problem, at its source, is Islam not ISIS. Were ISIS to completely disappear, today, Islam would inspire its replacement in seconds.
It’s Islamic ideology, not individual Islamic terrorist groups, that endangers the whole of society worldwide.
4 years ago
Question; What has happened to the woman, in America, who had about 20 home-made bombs? The last I heard, her mother turned her in and she was arrested. Since then – – crickets.
