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FBI now investigating 1,000 Islamic State-related jihad threats in all 50 states

Jul 6, 2017 12:49 pm By Robert Spencer

“It’s harder than finding a needle in a haystack; it’s like finding a needle in a stack of needles.”

And that’s especially true since the denial and willful ignorance about the motivating ideology of the threat is still all-prevailing.

“FBI Investigating 1,000 ISIS-Related Threats in All 50 States,” by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post, July 1, 2017:

Days after Charlotte-area ISIS sympathizer Justin Sullivan was sentenced to life for planning mass murder in support of the Islamic State terror group, a North Carolina-based terrorism expert says the FBI is investigating about 1,000 ISIS-related threats in all 50 states.

U.S. Attorney Jill Rose of Charlotte has confirmed that suspected ISIS sympathizers are being investigated in North Carolina while not disclosing the number, a “domestic-terrorism expert” told The Charlotte Observer that the state probes are among some 1,000 active FBI investigations.

After Sullivan’s conviction this week, Keri Farley, the FBI’s assistant special agent in charge of North Carolina, was quoted as saying that while Sullivan’s arrest saved lives, “homegrown violent extremists” are becoming more difficult to deal with.

“Identifying a terrorist before an attack happens is one of the most difficult challenges we face,” she said at a press conference. “It’s harder than finding a needle in a haystack; it’s like finding a needle in a stack of needles. But that’s exactly what happened in this case.”

According to the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, 126 people, mostly young men, have been arrested in the country over the last three years for ISIS-related acts or conspiracies.

While about 45 percent were arrested while trying to join ISIS fighters abroad, around 30 percent have been accused of being involved in plots to carry out attacks on U.S. soil, the program says, adding that 58 percent were charged in an operation involving an informant and/or an undercover agent.

The program has also found that the average age of those charged is 27, and their activities were located in 26 states and the District of Columbia….

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Justin Sullivan


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  1. dfddsffdfdsfdsfdsfd says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    another bit of terror in austria
    https://www.thelocal.at/20170706/islamist-motive-suspected-in-murder-of-elderly-couple-in-austria-linz

  2. John A. Marre says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    The one who let them in and who used our money to support Islam throughout the world is to blame. Know who I mean?

    • Shane says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 9:55 am

      George Bush let in hundreds of thousands of Muslims while he was President and Obama did too. The problem is not in just the Democrat party, but in the GOP too, as most GOP politicians will not call for a halt to Muslim immigration, and they will not state that Islam is a religion of war and misogyny. We have to keep up the fight to inform Westerners of the evil of Islam, Jihad, and Sharia. Great video by a beautiful, brave woman – The Great Replacement, Lauren Southern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDmsmN43NA&t=3s Lauren has gone into Muslim areas in Europe with her long blond hair and lived to tell about it!

  3. somehistory says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    They have a program on “extremism” but there should be one on “normal islum” so the real problem could be addressed.

    Kind of like recognizing that it doesn’t take an *extreme* cancer to kill a person. It just takes cancer.

    There are sports that people enjoy and in which millions participate. They don’t have to be extreme sports to injure or kill.

    Normal islum…normal ilsum kills. Normal islum breeds terror, murder, rape, destruction, lawlessness.

  4. Paul N Silas says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 3:26 pm

    I have a close friend who is an FBI agent and if he is an example, the rank and file are very concerned about what is happening in the US.

    • John Forbes says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 8:29 am

      At least this Administration is concerned & the FBI ought to be !
      The SAUDI FUNDED & LEFTIST PUSH for MUSLIM DOMINATION is very dangerous & many Americans are starting to see !
      AMERICANS by enlarge are not cowards & Unlike the Europeans are willing to stand & face ISLAM !
      END POLITICAL CORRECTNESS , ISLAMOPHOBIA & MULTICULTURALISM & fight SHARIA out of the USA !!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 7:30 pm

      Good to hear, Paul.

    • Frank Cicero says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 8:07 pm

      Better now than never and it should produce results. I am in a area where one basement mosque was connected with the 1993 bombing of WTC and another mosque aka roach motel less than a mile from me was also connected with 911. One good though they know they are hated and only talk in numbers.
      They are very careful around non Muslims and it’s only a matter of time before the cork pops.

  5. Jack Holan says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Just a mere suggestion since all of the terrorists were connected to different Mosques place two undercover Agents long term in Mosques and evaluate what is being preached and taught! There is a precedent during the 1070s The Bureau placed Agent in Synagogues to monitor the JDL. Mainstream Jewish Organizations were ok with it. So I’m sure after the fact CAIR being loyal Americans will support it too Remember that in Canada Imams were calling for the murder of Jews

    • John Forbes says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 8:33 am

      The MOSQUES are the HATE CENTERS & the ISLAMIC Schools will be as well if the USA allows them to be !
      MOSQUES have to be checked & sermons listened to to see if the IMAMS are preaching & teaching HATRED ! IF so SHUT them down ALONG with any school doing this !

      Stand up for AMERICAN LAWS , Laws of TOLERANCE & do not allow INTOLERANCE to take hold with this IDEOLOGY !!

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    FBI now investigating 1,000 Islamic State-related jihad threats in all 50 states
    ………………………….

    And yet, there are still large numbers of fools enraged over any attempt to limit more Muslims flooding into the United States.

    • SweetOlBob says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 7:18 am

      Graven:
      It’s about time that our FBI started investigating, arresting, and prosecuting these filthy muslim terrorists !
      Now that we have Comey. the buddy of Hillary out of there, maybe we can get something constructive done instead of pretending that there is nothing wrong.
      Stop all muslims from coming in ! Whether as tourists, cheap workers, or students. STOP THEM !

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 7, 2017 at 7:51 pm

        Agreed, Bob.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 3:59 pm

    With is awful news in the above article we should then remember that for the United States to continue as a great power in the world in spite of the current threats of the Islamic terrorism by jihadist /Muslim terrorists who are operatives of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other jihadists of other similar jihad terror entities. Americans then should have Vigilance, Conviction and, of course, Fortitude. As one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” and “A conviction that we are right accomplishes half the difficulty of correcting wrong.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had also stated “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.” So in other words we , as Americans ,should have learned keep moving on strongly with Vigilance, Conviction and Fortitude.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 6, 2017 at 4:20 pm

      Thanks for that quote from Jefferson, Walter–one of my favorites.

  8. marina says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    Don’t understand why the jihadists are arrested while trying to join Isis. They should be allowed to go and hopefully they will die for Allah. If they are citizens then their passports should be revoked or deported if they are non citizens.

    • SweetOlBob says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 7:29 am

      Marina:
      Absolutely Right ! Anyone trying to join or recruiting for isis or ANY other islamic organization should automatically lose their United States citizenship and either be deported or not allowed to return to our country.
      United States Citizenship is golden in the worlrd. It should not be thrown away on traitors or radical islamics.

  9. Oliver says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    While about 45 percent were arrested while trying to join ISIS fighters abroad, around 30 percent have been accused of being involved in plots to carry out attacks on U.S. soil, the program says, adding that 58 percent were charged in an operation involving an informant and/or an undercover agent.

    The program has also found that the average age of those charged is 27, and their activities were located in 26 states and the District of Columbia….

    The DC is heavily Dem– and government; what are the political leanings of the 26 states?

    And, I would bet that among them: Cal, Ill., N. Y., Minn., Oregon, Washington State., Mass.,

  10. Mockingjay says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 6:43 pm

    “1,000 Islamic State-related jihad threats in all 50 states.”

    – At least you Americans got guns.

    – In Europe, citizens are pretty much helpless children who cannot defend themselves when it comes to it.

  11. mortimer says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    Much less than 1% of Muslims would like to be jihadists, but that is about 10 million wannabe jihadists worldwide. At least 100,000 would-be jihadists are living in Western countries right now… far too many for police to watch all of them 24/7. A few of these have gotten through the net and many others will get through the net in future.

    It will take an informed public to learn to counteract the jihad, but first all members of the public need to learn about jihad.

    The most important thing to know is the ALL Muslims are JIHADISTS, but only LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF JIHAD IS VIOLENT. About 99% of jihad is peaceful supremacism, but ALL JIHAD IS DECEITFUL.

    ALL Muslims lie about jihad, conceal it or DISINFORM about jihad. ALL Muslims deceive the kafirs about jihad or they HAVE LEFT ISLAM!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 6, 2017 at 9:45 pm

      With all respect, Mortimer, I think you are underestimating the savagery of Islam.

      • Virginia Dare says

        Jul 7, 2017 at 6:57 pm

        You got that right gravenimage…..the fact is that the stealth version is the most dangerous of all Islam….and imams are putting out youtubes telling americans they are nuts for actually thinking that there are moderate versus radicals…they say that being a muslim demands that you practice exactly what ISIS is doing.,,.further with such a nutjob irrational religion any muslim who sees the light and wants out puts his life in the hands of the other koranimals. They are taught to kill any muslim who would deign to leave their cult of creeps, corruption, clit cutting and crap.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 7, 2017 at 7:54 pm

          Yes, Virginia–stealth Jihad can be even more dangerous than violent Jihad, since it flies below the radar for most people.

    • Mike says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 12:01 am

      And unfortunately for you guys Europe is run by hapless childeren

    • Mike says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 12:02 am

      Counteract them with a bullet to the head. Only thing they understand

  12. newUser says

    Jul 6, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    Scary.

  13. john says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 2:40 am

    All Muslims follow a false prophet that was a theocratic dictator. pedophile..wife abusing polygamist. theif. liar. kidnapper. rapist. mass murdering inbred. beastiality pervert that wiped his ass with his fingers and drank camel urine. and traveled on a flying donkey. They sre taught to kill anybody that will not convert to islam. especially Jews and Christians. Do you consider these people to be MODERATE just because some of them have not gone Jihadi yet?

  14. Dum Spiro says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 10:27 am

    The FBI always gets its man … or woman:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/883058495712579585/video/1

    That’s one we’d all like to see…
    — Spero

  15. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    ; Send in Hillary, Markel, Trudeau, ”Social Justice Warriors”, ”Black Lives Matter”, and other such ”liberals”, with their families, including their children, without weapons, and body-guards, to live in those ”Muhammadans only areas”, and we’ll see how long their mawkish benevolence lasts.

  16. Virginia Dare says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    You got that right gravenimage…..the fact is the stealth version is the most dangerous..and imams put out youtubes telling americans how dumb to speak of moderate versus radicals…they say that being a muslim demands that you practice exactly what ISIS is doing..further with irrational at the core, any muslim seeing light and wants out puts his life in the hands of the other koranimals—a cult of creeps, corruption, clit cutting and crap.

  17. Virginia Dare says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 7:11 pm

    So right gravenimage….fact is stealth version is most dangerous..imams have youtubes telling us how dumb to speak of moderate versus radicals…thus proving that being a muslim demands practicing what ISIS is doing..further with irrationality at the core, koranimals equals a cult of creeps.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 7, 2017 at 7:29 pm

      True, Virginia–stealth Jihad can be even more dangerous than violent Jihad. Actually, the two forms work hand in glove.

  18. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jul 7, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    WHAT?! The FBI is now “investigating” muslim terrorists?! I can’t believe it! Those racists LOL!

    Usually, they want to PARTY WITH THEM (see all internet photos of their past “Islamberg” fiascos)!

  19. mileaway says

    Jul 8, 2017 at 1:03 am

    Start rounding them ALL up at the next ass-in-the-air concert on main street NY,LA and any other city!Muslims have NO intention of ever assimilating into our society. They are only waiting for their numbers to amass so they can take over through the use of our own laws against us. Look at what they have done in Michigan or London. Anywhere they have the numbers they convert it to sharia and democracy and freedom is then dead..
    There is NO place for the evil society of Islam in America, period!

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