Fears that jihadist attacks could take place in Chicago are rising as at least 1300 Iranians are believed to have been killed — including the nation’s Supreme Leader, military commanders and civilians — all by relentless airstrikes from American and Israeli forces amid the ongoing overseas war.
Law enforcement officials in the U.S, have been ratcheting up intelligence gathering and security provisions to protect against “lone-wolf” terrorism attacks and so-called “sleeper cells” as several terrorist incidents have already happened.
Iran is already bombing airports in the Middle East and now there are stepped up drone attacks on U.S. embassies, including the mega-diplomatic compound in Baghdad, Iraq.
But when all of Iran’s missiles and drones are finally knocked out by round-the-clock bombing runs, will jihadists living in the U.S. bring the battle here?
They may already have.
“In the month of March alone, there were multiple high profile Islamic terrorist attacks,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY.) “You had Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, you had Austin, Texas; you had an ISIS-inspired attack where they threw an IED in New York City.”
On March 12, there was a terror attack at Old Dominion University in Virginia by a convicted ISIS sympathizer who shot three, killing one before being killed.
How to prevent these attacks was the focus of a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence offered a bleak outlook.
“This continues to be an extreme concern,” said intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard. “Not only be because of the rise of these attacks, but the mechanisms which they’re carried out and the challenges that the intelligence community has in being able to try to detect some of these threats and attacks in advance.”
The suburban Detroit attack on a Jewish synagogue — that also took place on March 12 — was carried out by the brother of a terrorist commander killed in the current Middle East war.
The Michigan attacker rammed his pick-up truck into Temple Israel synagogue. The attacker’s method of operation was seemingly a page ripped right out of a terrorist handbook, that was first reported by NBC 5 Investigates in 2010, when al Qaeda instructed radical followers to turn their vehicle into ”the ultimate mowing machine,” and urged an easy way to commit open-source jihad against a backdrop of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.
“We don’t have a good sense of what exactly the Iranian terrorist-connected capabilities inside the United States are,” said University of Illinois political scientist and terrorism expert Nicholas Grossman.
According to Grossman sleeper cells of Iranian terrorists in the U.S. waiting to be awakened by foreign leaders may be mostly Hollywood.
But the Dept. of Homeland Security hasn’t had a new terrorism alert in place since last September or updated this threat assessment since last summer long before the war when DHS officials said “we expect Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals—including current and former US officials—in the United States.”
“There also has been, over the course of the last year or so, a reduction in the coordination with various local and state enforcement agencies out of White House,” Grossman told NBC 5 Investigates. “Overall, with the counterterrorism effort, the head of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center just resigned and already was not somebody who was especially qualified in the first place. So there has been less of that overall.”
But does that send a message that there may not be the kind of coordination Americans have become used to since 9-11?
“I think that’s exactly it,” said Grossman. “That the U.S. Counterterrorism capacity is not quite what it was.”
Iran has threatened to kill American leaders since the 2020 death of its Revolutionary Guard chief.
Since the war started nearly three weeks ago, Chicago police say patrol attention has been refocused on places of worship citywide-even though officials say there is “no actionable threat intelligence related to Chicago.”
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