The United States is facing heightened threats from extremist groups at home and abroad, as evidenced by the Texas synagogue hostage taking last month and bomb threats at many historically African-American colleges and universities, the Department of State said on Monday. Homeland Security (DHS) of the United States, reports today, February 8, Reuters.
The warning comes after some US schools canceled classes and issued self-isolation orders last week.
“Threats directed at historically African-American colleges and universities, as well as other colleges and universities, Jewish institutions and synagogues, are a matter of concern and may inspire violent extremist terrorist groups,” the U.S. security agency said in a bulletin.
In January, an armed man took four people hostage at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, including its rabbi, Charlie Cytron-Walker. The ten-hour confrontation ended in a shootout, all four hostages were released, and the intruder died.
A few months ago, the US intelligence community warned of the threat of extremists such as white supremacists who would attempt mass murder.
The US DHS also warned that the Islamic State terrorist group or its affiliates could issue public calls for retaliation because of a U.S. special forces raid in Syria last week that killed the leader. local ISIS cell Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi.
The problem of domestic terrorism in the United States has become much worse. As reported, this was announced on March 2, 2021 by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Ray, at a hearing in the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of the US Congress, indicating that the number of cases related to such extremist activity has doubled in recent years in the country.