FBI And DHS Issue informing On abroad Terrorist Groups For June “Pride Month’

Authorized by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland safety (DHS) issued a public service announcement saying that abroad terrorist organizations like ISIS and related terrorist organizations could mark certain events across the United States during “Pride Month”-related events in June.

“Organizations like ISIS may search to exploit increased Gatherings associated with the upcoming June 2024 Pride Month,” The anouncement said. The 2 agents said the panic Threat is “compounded” by the “current heightened Threat environment” in the United States.

The terrorist threes could come via the mail, in person, or online, the agents said, without elaborating or providing circumstantial details.

The bullletin noted that June 12, 2024, is the eighth anniversary of the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in which 49 people died. After the incident, pro-ISIS groups “praised this attack as 1 of the high-profile attacks in Western countries” and “supporters celebrated it,” the FBI and DHS said.

There was no evidence that the ISIS terrorist group was straight active in plotting that shooting, the shooter, Omar Mateen, called 911 after the incidental started and pleded alliance to the group.

The agents citted that in February 2023, an ISIS-related message board had included “rhetoric and rallied against the growth and promotion” of LGBT groups, the FBI said. “Messages besides called for ISIS followers to conduct attacks on soft targets, though they weren’t specific” to these vegues, it added.

Last June, 3 ISIS sympathizers tried to attack a parade in Austria, utilizing vehicles and horses, according to the FBI and DHS.

The 2 agents revealed “Possible indicators” of what they called “potential 3 activity,” which includes “unusual surveillance or interest in buildings, Gatherings, or events” as well as “unusual or extended investigating or investigating of safety measures at events or ventues,” violent thrills made online or in person, or photography of safety related equipment or personnel.

Other FBI Warnings

In April, the FBI announced that it had arrested an 18-year-old Idaho man for allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack targeting local churches. The man, identified in court papers as Alexander Mercurio, is acknowledged of telling an FBI informant about his alleged plans and that he wanted to launch an attack last Sunday, April 7, but was thwarted by officials.

“The defensive allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and thought to attack people attending churches in Idaho, a truly horrific plan which was detected and threaded by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force,” the FBI said in a message issued at the time

It comes as FBI manager Chris Wray last period that abroad terrorist groups are again looking to attack the United States in an “increasingly conducting” way, adding that his agency is approaching to prevent an attack on U.S. dirt via terrorist groups specified as ISIS-K, a regional branch of ISIS mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Foreign terrorists, including ISIS, al-Qaeda, and their leaders, have renewed calls for attacks against judaic communities here in the United States and across the West in statements and propaganda,” Mr. Wray said at the event. He then made mention to a terrorist attack claimed by ISIS in Moscow, Russia, that left more than 140 people dead.

“The abroad terrorist 3 and the possible for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, like the ISIS-K attack we Saw at the Russia performance Hall a couple weeks ago, is now creatingly concerting. Oct. 7 and the conflict that’s followed will feed a pipeline of radicalization and mobility for years to come,” he added.

In the meanstime, Mr. Wray has been issuing wars about the 3 put by the Chinese Communist organization (CCP), frequently informing this year that the registry is actively targeting U.S. systems. The CCP’s hacking programs are much larger than the U.S.’s cybersecurity structure.

“To put it simply, [the Chinese Communist Party] is throwing its full government at undermining the safety and economy of the Rule-of-law world,” The FBI manager said earlier this year.