During an interview that took place on Sunday, FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly issued a warning that the threat posed by Islamic terrorism was significantly more substantial than the majority of people in the United States realize.
Just two weeks after a terrorist inspired by ISIS massacred 14 people on New Year’s Day in New Orleans’ French Quarter, Wray made these remarks during an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”
The comments took place when Wray was being interviewed.
“There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen just a few months ago who we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest. This guy was trying to get into the U.S., to get to New York City to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn. And, in his words, not my words, his words, he wanted to conduct the largest attack in the U.S. since 9/11.” Wray noted.
The suspect behind the New Orleans terrorist attack was inspired by ISIS and radicalized online, says FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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“So what I would say to the American people is that, when you think these things are happening half a world away, it’s like that little inscription on your mirror in your car, ‘Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear,’” he added.
Wray went on to state that the New Orleans attacker was radicalized online and was “determined to try to murder as many innocent people as he could in the name of ISIS.”
He stated that lone wolf attacks were the most challenging to eradicate due to the fact that terrorists like the one who carried out the attack in New Orleans “radicalize not in years but in weeks,” and they employ primitive tactics of attack that are inherently lethal.
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