Daily Mail – by Belinda Robinson
FBI Director James Comey said that law enforcement officials stopped an undisclosed number of plots to ‘kill people in the United States’ over the Fourth of July holiday.
The plots were linked to the Islamic State terror group who wanted to carry out attacks which would have caused mayhem across the country.
But they were thwarted by federal agents who have ramped up security efforts in recent months to arrest Islamic State sympathizers across the country.
In the past four months, at least 10 people who were considered to be ‘sympathizers’ of the terrorist group were taken into custody in New Jersey, Ohio and North Carolina.
And this, Comey said, had helped to prevent ISIS from carrying through their plans.
However, the FBI director refused to elaborate on what those plans were or who exactly was being targeted.
In the run up to July 4, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a warning of possible terror activity during the holiday.
Comey said that a vast number of Westerners are attracted by the Islamic State’s message. This makes things very unpredictable for federal authorities to be sure of their plans.
Whereas Al-Qaida would train operatives and carefully scope out targets, the concern among law enforcement officials is that the Islamic State is motivating people to commit violence ‘on a very short string.’
Comey said: ‘We face people who are highly unpredictable. We cannot count on the fact that they’ll be looking to do something on July fourth, so July third, we really got to lock these guys up.’
He added: ‘This is sort of the new normal.’
He cited as an example the case of a 26-year-old terror suspect who was fatally shot by police in Boston last month after authorities said he lunged at them with a military-style knife.
Usaamah Abdullah Rahim was a CVS security guard living in a quiet suburb of Boston.
Authorities said he had been scheming with other men, both now facing charges, of plotting to kill a conservative blogger known for provoking Muslims.
In another case, Samuel Rahamin Topaz, 21, of Fort Lee, was charged with conspiring to travel overseas to join ISIS.
Topaz was recruited by a college student, Munther Omar Saleh, 20, from Queens who was also arrested in May for plotting to build a pressure cooker bomb.
Saleh, who was a student at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology wrote that ‘AQ,’ believed to refer to Al-Qaeda, ‘could be getting too moderate.’
The pair communicated over the internet and by phone.
Comey said that some of the people who had been arrested in the last month had been communicating on encrypted platforms – a concern he discussed before Congress on Wednesday.
But, in an attempt to prevent attacks to coincide with July 4, agents had been able to use other means to intercept would-be terrorists and sympathizers.
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what was that it was kinda hard to catch with all the bullshit flying around
Must be something in the air. I have that same bug. *Ah-bullshit-hem*
Typical FBI, trying to justify their existence.
Well golly! I sure am glad that the FBI, CIA, DOJ, etc., etc. are keeping me safe from the boogeyman and the one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater!
I refuse to believe any press release(propaganda) the FBI makes public. Their credibility is non-existent. If there were any plots, they were orchestrated, financed, planned and executed by none other than the FBI. Justifying a bloated budget, is no excused for being serial liars. Comey is such a piece of shiite.
How convenient to be able to simply say “See? We protected you from certain death!” without having any proof, any details, any story. Problem, reaction, solution and it didn’t even require crisis actors!
yes, this saves them the trouble of staging the actual event, and the risk of getting caught staging it. (and we always catch ’em)
FBI Director James Comey is full of shit.
Imagine that, another psycho in the District of Criminal scum telling yet more lies. GFY you idiot, we don’t believe anything you say anymore!
I, too, stopped ISIS cold over the weekend, but I just don’t like to make a statement, as it hampers my on-going investigations, but rest assured, I saved many of you from a terrorist death.
Commie Comey should have been more forthcoming. “We stopped many terror plots we initiated!”
“In the run up to July 4, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a warning of possible terror activity during the holiday.
Oh boy….gotta find a way to justify that their propaganda is working.
“He cited as an example the case of a 26-year-old terror suspect who was fatally shot by police in Boston last month after authorities said he lunged at them with a military-style knife.”
And here I thought all terrorists use “AR-15’s” and bombs to come at people and terrorize them. Now they use military knives?
“In another case, Samuel Rahamin Topaz, 21, of Fort Lee, was charged with conspiring to travel overseas to join ISIS.”
Yes, the old “conspiring” charge with no facts to prove it. Love it.
So basically what they are saying is that they supposedly caught some people or made up patsies to try and justify that their propaganda and bullshit is working. Funny thing is that none of these took place during the 4th of July and happened over a month ago. GOOD JOB!
Hey, when Christmas comes, you’ll be hearing how they saved Christmas by talking about a crime that they stopped from happening in July.
Unfrigginbelievable……