Wednesday, June 12, 2024 -Six Russian nationals with potential ties to ISIS have reportedly been arrested in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles in a coordinated sting by law enforcement.
Two ICE
officials have told the New York Post they arrested the suspected
terrorist affiliates last week after the FBI raised the alarm.
The suspects are originally from
Tajikistan, and they also have Russian citizenship, according to the Post
Anonymous ICE officials told the newspaper
a wiretap revealed one of the suspects talking about bombs.
'Remember the Boston marathon
[bombing]? I'm afraid something like that might happen again or worse,' one
official told The Post.
The suspect in question has been
involved with law enforcement before and had a court date next year, according
to the source.
It comes as top law enforcement
officials warned the threat of a terrorist attack in the US has risen
'enormously' over the past few months.
Attorney General, Merrick
Garland made the astonishing admission while testifying before the House
Judiciary Committee on Tuesday last week during a hearing dedicated to
investigating the department's politicization.
'I am worried about the possibility of a
terrorist attack in the country after October 7,' Attorney General Garland
said. 'The threat level for us has gone up enormously.'
'Every morning, we worry about this
question. We try to track anyone who might be trying to hurt the country,' he
continued. 'Of course, this is a major priority for the Justice Department.'
FBI Director Christopher Wray,
also said 'we have seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole
other level' after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack.
'We have seen a rouges' gallery of foreign
terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and our allies,'
Wray said.
'Just in the time I have been FBI director
we have disrupted multiple terror attacks around U.S. cities.'
'I would be hard-pressed to think of a time
when so many different threats to our public safety and national security were
so elevated all at the same time.'
Wray said threats against Jewish Americans
has been particularly acute.
'We've seen an elevated threat to the
Jewish community in the United States.'
Though he said Jewish communities were
targeted before the October 7 attack, since then the threats 'went up
dramatically.'
'Religiously motivated hate crimes,
close to 60 percent of them, are targeted at the Jewish community,' Wray
testified, noting how the community only makes up two percent of the U.S.
population.
'Increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, not unlike an attack we saw in the Russia theater,' he added, referring to the Crocus City Hall concert shooting in March.
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