(JNS) The United States has been in a “heightened terrorism threat environment” since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, and “almost every major terrorist organization in the world,” including Al-Qaeda and ISIS, have called for terror attacks against the United States, an FBI official testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
“We’ve also seen an uptick in threats against the Jewish community here in the United States and abroad,” said Robert Wells, assistant director of the bureau’s counterterrorism division. “We remain concerned about threats from lone actors or small cells radicalized to violence online.”
“In addition, we are very focused on the threat posed by the more traditional foreign terrorist organizations and the state-sponsored terrorism threat from Iran,” added Wells, in his testimony on Wednesday.
