Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack

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Source: CBS News

June 14, 2024 / 7:01 PM EDT


Washington — The arrests of eight Tajik nationals with alleged ties to ISIS have renewed concerns about the terrorist group or its affiliates potentially carrying out an attack in the U.S.

The arrests in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia came as U.S. officials have been warning for months about the potential for a terror attack and as the U.S. has been on heightened alert.

"I see blinking lights everywhere I turn," FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in December, telling lawmakers, "I've never seen a time where all threats were so elevated all the time." In April, he warned that human smuggling operations at the U.S.-Mexico border were bringing in people potentially connected to terror groups.

On Friday, the State Department announced the U.S. and Turkey are imposing sanctions on three individuals with links to ISIS who are involved in trying to facilitate travel to the U.S.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/

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Link to State Department PRESS RELEASE - Joint U.S.-Türkiye Designations of an ISIS Smuggling Network

[MuchBetterThanThis]

1. The timing of this seems quite convenient, no?

As the topic for this upcoming election keeps shifting away from immmigration despite right-wing efforts, bringing ISIS( who?!) back into the equation will scare some.
The RWers are praying for some type of terror or murder activity that’s related to the southern border just to blame Biden

[LeftInTX]

2. They blew up a church in Turkey in February. It says there're arrested, but it also says they're sanctioned???

This is how the terrorist who brought the vehicle entered Turkey

SABAH has obtained images of the terrorist who brought the vehicle with Polish license plate used in the attack on the Santa Maria Church in Istanbul to Turkey, entering and exiting the country, as well as the photo of Adam Khamirzaev, a member of DAESH who gave the order for the attack.

SABAH has obtained the images of the terrorist who brought the vehicle with Polish license plate used in the attack on the Santa Maria Church in Sarıyer, Istanbul, to Turkey, entering and exiting the country. Abdullo Buriev, who came to the country by car from Edirne Hamzabeyli Border Gate on November 27, escaped to Russia from Istanbul Airport just 2 days later. Camera recordings were added to the investigation file. SABAH also obtained the photograph of Adam Khamirzaev, who was captured with his passport named "Andrei Guzun", who was determined to have ordered the attack. The mobile phone password of Amirjon Kholikov, one of the two ISIS members instructed by Khamirzaev and who carried out the action, was also cracked by the police.

Anton Bulai, the head priest at the church, stated that he was leading the service with his eyes closed when the attack occurred, and when he heard a sound for the second time, he opened his eyes and took shelter in the dressing room of the church community. The Santa Maria Church in Sarıyer, Istanbul, was attacked on January 28 by ISIS members Amirjon Kholikov, a citizen of Tajikistan, and David Tanduev, a Russian national. The mobile phone password of Kholikov, one of the attackers, was cracked by the police. In addition to the vehicle with Polish license plate used by Kholiqov in the attack, the passport belonging to a person named Jovid Hikmatov, who was transferred from DAESH, and a bank receipt sent to İbrahim S., who was detained during the investigation, were found on his mobile phone.



https://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2024/02/19/araci-getiren-terorist-turkiyeye-boyle-girdi

[Mysterian]

3. We have competent adults in charge now

Not oil cronies like Condaleeza Rice.

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4. I trust the Biden Administration

to handle this competently. Thanks for the info,