The jihadist threat in the US has escalated “dramatically” in 2015, with the country facing more attacks and attempted attacks from homegrown terrorists than any time in over a decade, a congressional panel warned last week.
The House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee said in a release that the number of US terrorist cases involving US-bred jihadists has reached 124, a sharp rise from the 38 reported in 2010 and constituting a three-fold increase in just five years.
“The Islamist terror threat in the US homeland has escalated dramatically this year and remains high,” committee chairman Michael McCaul said in the monthly “Terror Threat Snapshot” published Friday. “There have been more US-based jihadist terror cases in 2015 than in any full year since [September 11, 2001],” the August report noted. (READ MORE)
