During a Senate testimony on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the threat of a terrorist attack is at an all-time high following the Hamas attack against Israel on Oct. 7 and the war that broke out as a consequence.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked Wray how the current moment relates to 9/11, when it was often said that American authorities had multiple “blinking red lights” suggesting a terrorist attack would occur but did not act. “I see blinking lights everywhere I turn,” Wray responded.
Wray said there are currently more terror threats at higher degrees of concern than at any point in his career:
“What I would say that is unique about the environment that we’re in right now, in my career, is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here and there than where they might be right now, I’ve never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated, all at exactly the same time. That’s what makes this environment that we’re in now so fraught, and why funding our men and women who are working shoulder to shoulder with state and local law enforcement and other partners every day [is] even more important, not less.”
BREAKING: FBI Director Wray sounds the alarm, once again, about serious terror threats to America.
"I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time."
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Later in the hearing, Wray told Graham that there has been “a veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorists” calling for attacks against the US since the Israel-Hamas War began. “The threat level has gone to a whole ‘nother level since Oct. 7,” Wray said.
On Oct. 31, Wray had told Senators that the “actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago.” He continued:
“In just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West. Al-Qaeda issued its most specific call to attack the United States in the last five years. ISIS urged its followers to target Jewish communities in the United States and Europe. Hezbollah has publicly expressed its support for Hamas and threatened to attack U.S. interests in the Middle East. And we’ve seen an increase in attacks on U.S. military bases overseas carried out by militia groups backed by Iran.”
In other news, an American warship and several commercial vessels were attacked by Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea on Sunday. The Pentagon and the British military reported multiple projectiles from drones and several missiles were fired at the ships, some of which were intercepted by the American Navy.
Similarly, rebel groups have been attacking US bases in the Middle East over the last several weeks.
Watch Patrick Bet-David explain the differences between terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS below or read a text version of the video here.
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