THE TERRORISM NEWSLETTER
Domestic
Terrorism
August 6, 2019
As investigators attempt to piece together why a
24-year-old man opened fire outside a popular Dayton bar, people from his
past point to hit lists, violent threats and a fascination with shootings
that they now say were clearly red flags. Connor Betts, who was clad in
body armor and was carrying ammunition magazines, killed his sister and
eight others, with dozens more injured in the rampage early Sunday before
he was fatally shot by officers.
August 5, 2019
Prosecutors in El Paso, Texas, will seek the death
penalty for the man suspected of killing 20 people and injuring more than
two dozen others. U.S. Attorney John Bash said they will pursue a
criminal investigation, a civil rights hate crime investigation and
"domestic terrorism" charges against the suspect, who was
identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.
August 1, 2019
[NDIL] Omer Kuzu, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen born in
Dallas, Texas, was indicted for traveling to Syria and conspiring to
provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Kuzu was detained overseas by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),
transferred to FBI custody and returned to Texas. Kuzu and his brother
allegedly traveled from Houston, Texas, to Istanbul, Turkey, in October
2014 to join ISIS. Kuzu confessed to agents that he and his brother were
smuggled into Syria by ISIS.
International
Terrorism
August 6, 2019
Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency thwarted a
major Hamas terror attack in Jerusalem after an explosive charge ready
for use and laboratory were uncovered in Hebron. The cell which had been
planning the attack before it was broken up following a joint Shin Bet,
IDF and Israel police investigation, was operating under the direction of
Hamas's military wing in the Gaza Strip to carry out attacks against
Israeli and Palestinian Authority targets. Cell members were instructed
to establish teams to carrying out kidnapping, shooting and stabbing
attacks, to purchase weapons and to recruit others to carry out terrorist
attacks, the Shin Bet said.
August 6, 2019
Hezbollah held the opening ceremony of its Executive
Council's summer activity, according to an Aug. 6 report by the Meir Amit
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC). The ceremony,
entitled "Our Generations are the Message of Victory," took
place in the hussainiya (a Shiite social/religious club of sorts)
of the city of Nabatieh. It was also attended by the chairman of
Hezbollah's Executive Council, Sayyid Hashem Safi al-din. Hezbollah
operatives from the military wing and political institutions took part in
the ceremony, as well as Shiite clerics. The venue was decorated with
posters honoring Hezbollah's shahids, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah,
and Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei.
August 4, 2019
A powerful car-bomb explosion outside a hospital in
Egypt's capital killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more in the
deadliest terrorist attack in Cairo in more than two years. Egypt's Interior
Ministry said the blast occurred late Sunday after an explosive-laden car
driving the wrong way slammed into three others on Cairo's Nile Corniche,
sparking a chaotic scene of fire and metal as rescuers rushed in,
according to footage of the aftermath. Another 47 people were injured,
the ministry said.
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