Chairman McCaul Releases July Terror Threat Snapshot

Press Release

The July Terror Threat Snapshot was released today by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX). The "snapshot" is a monthly Committee assessment of the growing threat America, the West, and the world face from ISIS and other Islamist terrorists.

Chairman McCaul: "This past month's ISIS-inspired rampage in Orlando marked the deadliest terror attack in our homeland since 9/11. The FBI recently arrested another American ISIS supporter involved in a plot to launch an attack on U.S. soil. We are in an unprecedented global war against Islamist terrorists, as the jihadist atrocities in the past weeks in Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh demonstrated. The enemy spurs its supporters in our midst to violence while it grooms operatives to dispatch globally. Groups like ISIS and al Qaeda have proven resilient, and continue to dominate large swaths of territory. Iran and its terrorist proxies have continued to threaten vital American interests after the Obama Administration dangerously legitimized the Iranian regime's nuclear ambitions. The failure to recognize the nature of these threats and to lay out a clear, viable plan for confronting them will sadly continue to endanger Americans and our allies."

Key takeaways in this month's Terror Threat Snapshot:

Islamist terrorists pose an increasing threat globally, including in the United States where last month an ISIS supporter executed the deadliest terror attack on American soil since 9/11.
Radical Islamists have escalated the pace of their attacks -- they have killed nearly 250 people across 4 countries in the last week.
Islamist terror operatives have infiltrated the West by exploiting massive migrant and refugee flows.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainees have returned to the battlefield at an alarming rate.
Iran has remained the "foremost state sponsor of terrorism" in the wake of the disastrous nuclear deal.

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