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Via Washington Times:
There have been more U.S.-based jihadi terror cases in 2015 than in any full year since 9/11, according to a “Terror Threat Snapshot” report released Tuesday by the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who asserts that U.S. officials must “do more to take the fight to the enemy overseas at its source.”
“Otherwise, we’re going to see the threat picture here at home steadily worsen,” Rep. Michael T. McCaul said in a statement with the report, which maintains that the total number of U.S.-based jihadist cases has increased three-fold over the past five years — from 39 in July 2010 to 122 at the current moment.
Mr. McCaul pointed to last month’s killing of four U.S. Marines and a sailor by a Kuwait-born American who went on a shooting spree in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the highest profile recent example of a “new generation of extremists” that have amplified and complicated the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland.
The FBI has investigated the Chattanooga attacks as terrorism, but officials said they found no material connection between the gunman, 24-year-old Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez — who was killed in a gunfight with police during the attack — and specific terrorist groups such as the Islamic State.
However, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, factors heavily into Tuesday’s report, which says authorities have arrested or charged at least 48 individuals in “ISIS-related” cases inside the U.S. during the past seven months, a significant jump from the just 15 such cases that unfolded during all of 2014.”
