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More Jihadi Plots Continue To Be Inspired By ISIS In US, West

ISIS’s message continues to resonate with American citizens as indicated by more Islamist jihadi plot attacks on American soil and attempts to travel overseas to join the terror group, according to this month’s Terror Threat Snapshot released by Homeland Committee on Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX).

The “snapshot” is a monthly Committee assessment of the growing threat America, the West, and the world face from ISIS and other Islamist terrorists.

The latest snapshot also noted that, “ISIS has targeted the West at an alarming rate, marked by a recent surge in ISIS-linked plots to attack US and allied interests abroad.”

“Since September 11, 2001, there have been at least 223 homegrown jihadist plots in the United States, including attempts to join terrorist groups overseas and execute attacks at home. More than 90 percent of these cases have occurred or been uncovered since 2009,” the snapshot reported, adding, “Authorities have arrested 114 individuals in the US and charged 4 others in absentia in ISIS-linked cases since 2014. These individuals had, among other acts: plotted attacks; attempted to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria (or facilitated others’ travel); provided money, equipment and weapons to ISIS; and falsified statements to federal authorities. Eight ISIS-linked terrorists have been killed while carrying out five separate attacks in California, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas and Minnesota.”