WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Following the murder of 1,400 Israelis by Palestinian Islamic terrorists last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a warning this week about the increasing potential of terrorist strikes in the United States.
In front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Wray made these statements during his opening speech.
“It seems especially well-timed this year with the dangerous implications the very fluid situation in the Middle East has for our homeland security,” he said. “The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level.”
“It’s not just Hamas,” he continued. “As the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranians, for instance, have directly, or by hiring criminals, mounted assassination attempts against dissidents and high-ranking current and former U.S. government officials, including right here on American soil. Along those lines, Hezbollah, Iran’s primary strategic partner, has a history of seeding operatives and infrastructure, obtaining money and weapons, and spying in this country going back years.”
Director Wray’s comments follow comments made in a recent interview where Ghazi Hamad, a representative of Hamas, declared that the terrorist group was prepared to carry out as many “Al-Aqsa Flood” attacks as necessary to ensure that every Israeli in the world is killed.
“Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” Hamad declared. “We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe for the Arab and Islamic nations and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force.”
According to FBI data, Jewish people make up only 2.4% of the U.S. population; however, 60% of all religious-based hate crimes targeted Jewish people in the U.S., and that number has continued to skyrocket since the war between Hamas and Israel began. Wray stated, “This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance.” “We shouldn’t stop conducting our daily lives—going to schools, houses of worship, and so forth—but we should be vigilant.”
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