In late June 2024, around 40 Iranian-Germans protested against Hossein Mousavian and his relations with the Körber Foundation in Hamburg. This think tank, founded by Kurt A. Körber, a member of the Nazi party who worked for Universelle-Werke J. C. Müller &amp; Co. and advanced Hitler’s war goals, had hosted Mousavian at a May breakfast event, but after a tide of criticism, the think tank deleted its X post. Körber embedded four photographs of people at the breakfast, including pictures from Mousavian. 
The Munich Security Conference and the Körber-Stiftung selected 7 people who work for the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry as international participants to be their Munich Young Leaders fellowship in recent years.
What do these protesters have against Mousavian, a “Middle East specialist” at Princeton University? He can be followed in four cases: the consolidation of the ideology of terror, the supervisor of a terror project (24 killed) in Europe in the ’90s, the agent of the regime’s normalization while advancing its nuclear program, and his financial corruption (convicted) in Iran.
<h4>Propagandist</h4>
By just focusing on Mousavian&#8217;s activities in Resalat Daily between 1985 and 1990, I can show who he really is. During this period, he rarely wrote a piece under his name in this propaganda outlet, and the authors were mainly members of the Qom Seminary Instructors Association, members of the Mu`talfa Party, and people close to these hardliner groups. Other than these terror groups’ members, the rest of the content was published anonymously, with a pseudonym or under the title of the cultural or political section. These people were all followers of Khomeini who was anti-Semitic, anti-Baha&#8217;i, anti-women, and anti-LGBTQ.
<h4>Terror Regime, Terrorist Officials</h4>
In many cases, people look for evidence and documents for the problems in front of their eyes. We don&#8217;t need to provide any evidence for Mousavian to be an agent of the Islamist regime other than his positions in the last 45 years. He was and still is the agent of the Islamist terrorist regime. Even in Princeton, he has been promoting the regime’s nuclear agenda.
Considering the regime&#8217;s terrorist, brutal, and oppressive policies towards the Iranian people, the agency of this regime at high levels automatically turns a person into a criminal. Without contributions in complicity and cover-ups, people cannot be in the regime&#8217;s high-ranking positions. This alone is enough reason to fire Mousavian from Princeton. He is in Princeton to whitewash the crimes of the regime against humanity, and not to promote security and world peace.
In an outlet where Mousavian was on the editorial board (under the title of &#8220;central council&#8221; instead of the editorial board), this propaganda outlet was continuously promoting and praising terror and terrorism. Note that Fada’iyan (Devotees) of Islam, whose assassination actions were commemorated by this outlet, was a terrorist organization that assassinated two prime ministers. It also attempted to assassinate the Shah but failed. The Devotees of Islam also assassinated secular intellectuals such as Ahmad Kasravi. The Qom Seminary Instructors Association was the financier of terror activities and the provider of religious justifications for terror. Khomeini also supported these groups financially and ideologically.
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During February and March of 1989, Resalat in one month, advertised and promoted Khomeini&#8217;s issuance of a fatwa on the killing of Salman Rushdie with big headlines every day. The editorials on 27 Bahman and 9 Esfand of 1367 (February 16 and 28, 1989, both probably under pseudonyms) fully defended the issuance of this fatwa, which is the outlet&#8217;s position and therefore Hossein Mousavian&#8217;s.
Contrary to popular belief, terrorism does not only happen when a group or individual shoots a political opponent, writer, or religious dissenter or presses the button to detonate a bomb. Terrorism is triggered when a religious scholar or political leader issues an order to eliminate the opposition or dissenters. The rest of the story is about the execution. The case of Salman Rushdie and his assassination four decades after Khomeini&#8217;s fatwa is a good example.
In this sense, Mousavian&#8217;s role in launching the Resalat and his responsibility in the Tehran Times, as a propagandist, promoter, and legitimizer of terrorism, is even more important than his role in the assassinations of dissidents in the 90s in Europe. Resalat has been a propaganda mouthpiece and not a newspaper in a free country. In a propaganda outlet, the materials and authors are selected in advance by the &#8220;central council&#8221; and every published article, piece, or news is aimed at advancing an agenda, plan, or narrative. Therefore, every member of the central council &#8211; like communist bulletins &#8211; is responsible for what is published in the outlet, and the responsibility of any article is not solely on the shoulders of the author. In a propaganda bulletin, the content is not just filtered through the council but what goes into the filter is pre-determined and ordered based on a specific political agenda.
Mousavian was the editor or chief editor (in some issues) of Resalat Daily which has been the pioneer of the narratives of elimination, purge, and executions. One of the outlet’s policies for which Mousavian is responsible as a member of its central council was the promotion of terrorism whether praising Suleiman Khater’s action, an Egyptian terrorist (January 28, 1986) or calling Prime Minister Mansour’s assassination a “revolutionary execution” (Badamchian’s piece, March 2, 1986; commemoration of the assassination day, January 20, 1986).
This outlet calls every assassination of the Pahlavi regime’s officials a “revolutionary execution.” During Mousavian’s work, the outlet arranged interviews with every terrorist or theoretician of terrorism who entered Iran, such as Ahmad Ra’if, one of the ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood (February 16, 1987). Resalat constantly glorified Muslim terrorists inside and outside the country and still does so. This is its policy.
The following methods are used in the contents of this newspaper: dividing the world into those who dominate (non-Muslim) and those who are dominated (Muslim) in numerous op-eds and articles, attributing every issue during the Pahlavi dynasty to Western foreigners such as removing hijab, Bahaism, and homosexuality. According to the newspaper op-eds, America and Europe are responsible for starting the Iran-Iraq war, and the West is racist.
<h4>Underlying Method</h4>
Resalat Daily had a very clever way to promote terrorism and mass murder. This outlet prepared the mentality of the society for killing without informing. For example, on the subject of the 1988 massacre in prisons, it did not even provide a single line of news about this story during which 3,000-5,000 people were executed; but by publishing a series of articles under the title &#8220;Ghost of the Monster&#8221; subtitled &#8220;A narrative of the crimes of the hypocrite terrorist network” (an episode of it on August 6, 1988 under the pseudonym M-K, which is a security agent) tries to justify and legitimize the killing of members of the MEK organization.
Mousavi Ardebili, the head of the Supreme Court and imam of Tehran&#8217;s Friday Prayer, gave a speech about the necessity of removing and executing the opponents. Resalat published his anti-due process words in large fonts without any criticism. It is unlikely that the editors of the newspaper, including Hossein Mousavian, were unaware of the executions of thousands of opponents in prisons. In this sense, he is responsible for hiding the story. Resalat published Ardebili&#8217;s words on August 6, 1988. As a judiciary official, he asks the judicial authorities: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you try and execute the MEK members?&#8221; He immediately puts aside the re-trial of the prisoners who have already been convicted in the kangaroo courts and says: &#8220;They don&#8217;t deserve a trial. Their sentence is death.&#8221;
In publishing these words, Mousavian did not question Friday Prayer leaders’ and the judicial officials’ statements in an editorial note. The editorial should have asked why the government executes previously convicted people without a trial. In the final days of the executions, Ali Khamenei said: &#8220;The Islamic Republic remains arrogant and will become stronger and more stable day by day,&#8221; (Resalat, August 27, 1988). In this case, no one in the newspaper asked him how the Islamic Republic is getting stronger day by day while it is busy killing.
<h4>Appeasing Appointment</h4>
The appointment of Hossein Mousavi at Princeton University violates all academic principles in the world. Beyond allocating an academic position without public ad and competition and considering academic qualifications, Mousavian has been placed in his position with the advice of politicians and financiers only because of his dark political records to be a deal maker in the nuclear agreement. This placement violated the academic and administrative independence of universities. Princeton&#8217;s decision-makers most likely agreed to such a ridiculous act only to gain more access to federal public resources or to increase their influence through the federal government channels. Mousavian did not have a scientific record before being hired, and his role was mostly as an intermediary for his respective government and advancing its interests.
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Several suspected ISIS terrorists were arrested in Indonesia last week for allegedly plotting to assassinate Pope Francis during his recent visit to the country.
Indonesia’s anti-terrorism police, Detachment-88, said in a statement that the seven suspects were arrested early in the week in various cities throughout the country, The Straits Times <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-police-detain-seven-in-a-failed-plot-to-attack-pope-francis?_gl=1*1kwn4lj*_gcl_au*MTczMDg2MzcxNy4xNzI1ODE5OTAz">reported</a>.
The full names of the suspects were not released, but police said their initials were HFP, LB, DF, FA, HS, ER, and RS.
Investigators made the arrests after receiving tips from the public but did not know if the suspects knew each other or if they were part of the same terror cell.
A source told the publication that a search of one of the suspect&#8217;s homes turned up &#8220;bows and arrows, a drone, and ISIS leaflets.&#8221;
The source added that some of suspects had pledged allegiance to ISIS and that at least one of the terrorists belonged to an ISIS cell that carried out an attack on the country&#8217;s then-chief security minister in 2019.
The terrorists were planning to kill the Pope because of his visit to Jakarta’s Istiqlal mosque and &#8220;the government’s appeal to television stations to refrain from the usual broadcasting of azan (Islamic call to prayer) while a live broadcast of Pope Francis’ visit was in session.&#8221;
While speaking at the presidential palace in Jakarta, the Pope called out terrorists who act in the name of their faith.
&#8220;There are times when faith can be manipulated to foment divisions and increase hatred,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Prejudices can be eliminated, and a climate of mutual respect and trust can grow.&#8221;
Indonesia is an overwhelmingly Islamic country with 87% of the country&#8217;s citizens identifying as Islamic. Nearly all the Muslims in the country, 99%, are believed to be Sunni, which is the sect that many Islamic terrorist groups come from.

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Christian communities throughout <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nigeria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nigeria</a> have been completely destroyed by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/radical-islam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic terrorists</a>, according to interviews with persecuted Christians conducted by religious liberty advocates.
The interviews were included in a <a href="https://media.opendoorsuk.org/document/pdf/No-Road-Home-Advocacy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released Sunday by Open Doors International, a religious freedom advocacy group, which found that thousands of Christians have been killed and displaced in Nigeria in increasing numbers since 2020. Open Doors interviewed hundreds of persecuted Christians, many of whom were sheltering in camps throughout the country.
“Extremist violence across parts of Nigeria over the last decade has resulted in mass displacement of Christian communities, amongst others,” the report said. “They have been singled out for violence, face harsh living conditions and experience faith-based challenges throughout their displacement journey. Nigerian state security personnel regularly failed to respond in a timely or effective manner to violent attacks against Christians.”
The violence has been primarily taking place in the northern states of Borno and Plateau, where there are lots of Islamic militants and violent Fulani herdsmen. About 2.7 times more Christians are killed in violent attacks than Muslims with at least 16,769 Christians being killed from October 2019 to September 2023. Christians are also the disproportionate victims of kidnappings.
For the report, Open Doors interviewed 292 Christians and humanitarian workers from January to April 2024 about their experiences with the persecution. Interviewees were primarily Christians who had been displaced within the country, with some workers from humanitarian agencies also interviewed.
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One Christian displaced from Borno said that all the churches in the area of Gwoza were burned to the ground.
“Now, all the churches in Gwoza have been destroyed by Boko Haram, and many of the Christians have fled and are living as IDPs in different locations,” the interviewee said. “Since the attacks and the destruction of churches in Gwoza, I have not returned, and the churches are still in their deplorable state since their destruction.”
Another Christian said that the Christian population of another area in Borno had been completely replaced.
“I think for Goshe even during the time of displacement most of the community members were Christians,” the interviewee said. “But now the resettled members are almost ninety percent Muslims in the place I went to. It used to be a Christian community, but now it is a Muslim community.”
Other interviewees said that they struggled to defend themselves from attacks because they were armed with only a few small guns while their attackers had more sophisticated weaponry.
One of the main groups behind the attacks is Boko Haram, a radical Islamic group that has targeted Christians for years.
“Boko Haram target people that are working with the church, maybe you have a position like Secretary or you have any position in church, you are a target. In every community they have a list of people they are looking for,” an interviewee said.
If they survive the attacks on their villages, then the Christians also face struggles finding food and shelter. Many of the camps for displaced people discriminate against Christians and do not give aid to those with Christian names. Many people also refuse to rent out property to Christians.
Open Doors CEO Ryan Brown <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/thousands-christians-deliberately-targeted-killed-nigeria-new-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News on Tuesday that much of the world was ignoring the violence against Christians in Nigeria.
&#8220;The rest of the world seems to be turning a blind eye,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People are not talking about it. People are not aware of the realities, and therefore people aren&#8217;t doing anything about it.&#8221;

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A group representing U.S. special operations warned in a letter this week that the U.S. faces an ultra-high threat of getting hit by a major Islamic terrorist attack because of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> disastrous foreign policy and open border policies.
Special Operations Association of America (SOAA) Chairman Christopher Miller, who served as Acting Secretary of Defense at the end of President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term in office, said in a letter that the organization was &#8220;gravely concerned by the current heightened risk of terrorist attacks against targets inside the United States and both U.S. and allied interests abroad.&#8221;
The organization — which represents thousands of Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders, Air Force Air Commandos, and other special operators — said that Biden&#8217;s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan was a key reason why the threat environment was so high.
Biden&#8217;s pullout left the U.S. &#8220;without a viable stay-behind or over-the-horizon counterterrorism and intelligence capability to suppress threats,&#8221; which has resulted in Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda being able to rapidly regain strength in the region.
&#8220;The United States has lost significant intelligence collection capabilities in the region, leaving federal authorities blind and deaf to emerging threats emanating from the region,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;The creation of new and reestablishment of previous terrorist training camps within Afghanistan has led to successful, deadly attacks by the Islamic State’s regional branch against targets in Iran and Russia and elsewhere, adding further credence to the notion that the U.S. is at risk.&#8221;
&#8220;This risk is compounded by developments in the Middle East and the porous, unsecured southern border through which we have seen numerous instances of individuals on terrorist watchlists and others from adversarial countries attempt to enter the U.S. – and those are the ones we know about only because they were detected,&#8221; the letter added. &#8220;We do not know how many other terrorists are already currently inside the U.S.&#8221;
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Numerous federal departments and agencies have echoed similar statements about the threats that the U.S. currently faces.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified last year that foreign terrorists were trying to exploit Biden&#8217;s open border policies to carry out attacks on the U.S.
When asked if it was a similar situation to what the U.S. faced before the 9/11 attacks where officials said that they saw &#8220;blinking red lights&#8221; that something was about to happen, Wray responded: “I see blinking lights everywhere I turn.”

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Islamic terrorists carried out what appeared to be coordinated attacks in Russia on Sunday, attacking churches and synagogues and killing multiple police officers in two cities.
The attacks happened in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province, a majority-Muslim region that is a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism.
The Israeli government provided the most information about the attacks while the Russians have provided few details up to this point.
&#8220;The synagogue in Derbent was set on fire and burned to the ground,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. &#8220;Local guards were killed. The synagogue in Makhachkala was attacked by gunfire, there are no further details. At the same time, churches were attacked in Makhachkala and a priest was murdered in Derbent.&#8221;
&#8220;As far as is known, there were no worshipers in the synagogues at the time of the attack and there are no known casualties from among the Jewish community,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The Israeli embassy in Moscow is in contact with the leaders of the Jewish community in the district.&#8221;
Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission Chairman Shamil Khadulaev said that the terrorists slit the priest&#8217;s throat in Derbent. Other priests have barricaded themselves in the church and are waiting for help, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/23/europe/dagestan-synagogue-attack-russia-intl-latam/index.html">said</a>.
At least 15 police officers were killed, as were several civilians, by the terrorists. At least six terrorists were killed.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a terrorism investigation in response to the attacks, which happened in the the Dagestan cities of Derbent and Makhachkala.
“All the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in the terrorist attacks are being established, and their actions will be given a legal assessment,” the investigative directorate statement reads.
Videos that circulated online showed the Islamic terrorists shooting at people and one of the synagogues being burnt to the ground.
The attacks come after Islamic terrorists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/putin-acknowledges-islamic-terrorists-carried-out-attack-in-moscow">murdered</a> over 140 people in a large attack on a concert hall in Moscow earlier this year.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mobs-in-russia-yelling-allahu-akbar-hunt-down-jews-storm-airport-after-flight-from-israel-arrives-reports">Mobs In Russia Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ Hunt Down Jews, Storm Airport After Flight From Israel Arrives</a>

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Islamic Terrorists Attack Churches, Synagogues In Russia; Multiple Fatalities Reported

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A multi-state FBI counterterrorism wiretap sting has rolled up eight <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-suspected-isis-linked-terrorists-arrested-in-3-u-s-cities-after-illegally-crossing-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tajikistani nationals</a> in three cities who had entered over the U.S. Southwest Border and were plotting some sort of bombing. 
On its own, what little is known about this terrible new consequence of President Joe Biden’s ongoing historic mass migration border crisis – a coordinated, large-cell infiltration attack on the homeland – ranked as startling enough to draw <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/17/us-news/house-committee-demands-answer-on-eight-tajik-border-crossers-arrested-for-terror-plot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional demands</a> for much more basic information than the administration will currently release.
“Unfortunately, the unacceptable security failures that have allowed individuals with terrorist ties to enter the United States through the Southwest Border have become an alarming pattern under the administration,” states a recent U.S. <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-18-Green-et-all-to-Mayorkas-DHS-and-Wray-FBI-re-Eight-Individuals-on-TSDS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Homeland Security Committee letter</a> demanding the Biden administration disclose how it failed here. 
Not yet demanded, however, is attention to a recent revelation about the Tajik Eight case that should propel what is happening at the border to an even higher and broader level of national security concern. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-suspected-terrorists-possible-isis-ties-arrested-new-york-l-philadel-rcna156635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News has reported </a>that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), of all agencies, actually vetted and pre-approved the entry of at least one of the busted Tajikistanis on the administration’s “CBP One” phone app — a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/05/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-border-enforcement-actions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">humanitarian parole scheme.</a>
The CBP One phone app-based entry program has allowed more than 500,000 foreign nationals from 100 different countries who intended to illegally cross the border to instead schedule a DHS-approved “legal” escort through eight U.S.-Mexico land ports, <a href="https://cis.org/Report/New-Records-Unveil-Surprising-Scope-Secretive-CBP-One-Entry-Scheme">according to information exclusively obtained and reported</a> by the Center for Immigration Studies through Freedom of Information Act litigation over the past year.
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The Biden administration began piloting the program in May 2021 but dramatically <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/12/dhs-scheduling-system-safe-orderly-and-humane-border-processing-goes-live-cbp-onetm">expanded</a> it in January 2023, it said, as a means to clear politically damaging illegal entry border congestion. 
Almost all 500,000, we are assured, were supposedly well vetted for security, then granted quick release into the United States, sight unseen, on two-year, renewable permits that also come with work authorization eligibility. 
But the NBC revelation that one or more of the arrested Tajiks used the CBP One land ports entry scheme warrants new scrutiny about that land port pipeline into the country. It poses a unique national security risk, quite separate from traditional illegal border crossings, especially the vetting that is supposedly done byDHS before passage is granted.
In this case, the vetting obviously didn’t work.. But for how many others did the vetting system not work? The odds do not look promising.
It turns out that DHS personnel have approved not one or two problematic Tajiks of malintent for passage, but hundreds from that Muslim-majority country of U.S. terrorism concern over the past couple of years – and literally thousands from some two dozen other nations of terrorism concern, according to an analysis of the center’s FOIA lawsuit data on this program.
From its May 2021 inception through at least December 2023, DHS approved 888 Tajiks for land port passage and release into the country on the two-year humanitarian parole releases, no doubt many more during the first half of 2024.
And they are the least of a rich diversity of foreign nationals from two dozen nations of terrorism concern that the administration has wittingly allowed through the pipeline.
<h3>Thousands More Approved For Entry</h3>
The historical context as a homeland security matter for these entries is important to know. To reduce the risk of terrorist border infiltration a few years after 9/11, the U.S. homeland security enterprise began tagging those arriving from some 35-40 nations where Islamic terrorist groups operate as “special interest aliens,” or SIAs, which flagged them for detention and additional security vetting. The Biden administration now uses the term “special interest migrants” internally.
SIAs are not regarded as terrorists but, because they arrive from nations where avowed anti-U.S. terrorist groups are prevalent, homeland security protocols dating back to <a href="https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Aguilar_memo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2004 CBP Memorandum</a> required extra security procedures for those coming from the designated list of countries. Tajikistan has been on that list from the beginning.
<div id="attachment_753481" style="width: 374px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-753481" class="size-full wp-image-753481" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/CBP-One.png" alt="U.S. Customs and Border Protection. November 1, 2004." width="364" height="353" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/CBP-One.png 364w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/CBP-One-300x291.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px" />U.S. Customs and Border Protection. November 1, 2004.</div>
In addition to the 888 Tajiks allowed in through the CBP One app program, DHS has authorized thousands more from 24 special interest countries to enter, including from Afghanistan (653), and smatterings from Iran (27), Lebanon (10), Syria (7), Iraq (4), Egypt (6), and Jordan (5). But the largest numbers of SIAs let in are coming from other Muslim-majority former Soviet republics in Central Asia neighboring Tajikistan, such as Kyrgyzstan (4,224 through December), Uzbekistan (2,071), and Kazakhstan (585).
The terrorism section of the CIA’s “World Factbook” notes that U.S.-designated foreign terrorist groups have long operated in the dangerous neighborhood that all three of the most numerous of the SIAs hail from: the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Afghanistan is in the same tough neighborhood.
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Among the groups operating in those three countries are the Islamic Jihad Union, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K). But there are many other extremist groups operating in the region too, such as the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and various ISIS-affiliated groups the government has suppressed, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2021 <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2021/tajikistan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Country Report on Terrorism for Tajikistan</a>, and who might want to flee to the United States.
The same report notes that terrorist group members move throughout the mostly unguarded borders of these countries, with Tajikistan asserting that “thousands of militants” come and go from neighboring Afghanistan.
As one indication of public sentiment toward Islamic extremist ideology in the Kyrgyz Republic, <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/countries/kyrgyz-republic-extremism-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.counterextremism.com/countries/kyrgyz-republic-extremism-terrorism&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1719324580942000&amp;usg=AOvVaw144ZArd554Q2tZOEjnHPkL">an estimated 850 of its citizens</a> reportedly joined ISIS between 2013 and 2015, and regional scholars insist the real number is higher, according to the Counter Extremism Project.
Uzbekistan also has figured prominently in global counterterrorism efforts, in part because the internationally designated terrorist organization known as the <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/islamic-movement-uzbekistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a> has had regional and global reach and regularly conducts attacks. Extremists from Uzbekistan have been implicated in U.S. attacks and plots too. Hundreds of Uzbeks also fought for ISIS and many have returned.
At issue with the entry of one or more of the Tajik Eight, along with the thousands of other government-authorized entries of SIAs, is whether the Biden administration’s DHS is conducting effective enhanced security screening.
<h3>Failing Security Screening </h3>
DHS Secretary Alejandra Mayorkas has repeatedly assured the American public that security vetting for this program is its highlight. 
DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/05/dhs-continues-prepare-end-title-42-announces-new-border-enforcement-measures-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy documents</a> say all approved CBP One applicants pass “rigorous biometric and biographic national security and public safety screening and vetting.”
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CBP agents and U.S. processors, however, mainly run this information through criminal and domestic national security databases looking for matches to U.S. criminal records, warrants, and terrorism watch lists, those who do this work say. A DHS source with direct knowledge of government vetting processes for the CBP One land port parole program, who was not authorized to speak or be identified, told me last fall that all of the SIAs going through the CBP One appointment and parole at the land ports are run through more databases than non-SIA applicants — these ones containing classified intelligence information — as a means to detect terrorism problems.
But this vetting process is deeply flawed, experts say, because of a presumption that only fractional few real terrorists ever make intelligence databases. Database checks can’t detect information that is not in them.
“The only thing we can query is information that we have,” former FBI Director James Comey once said of vetting foreign national refugees. “So, if we have no information on someone, they&#8217;ve never crossed our radar screen, they&#8217;ve never been a ripple in the pond, there will be no record of them there and so it will be challenging.”
Neither can U.S. intelligence agencies very well check for derogatory information with governments that are diplomatically hostile to the United States and would never cooperate, such as Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan.
<h3>Pertinent Questions</h3>
“That’s a really hard target to analyze, and to just shoot from the hip and let them in is absolute insanity in my book,” said <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgconway/">James G. Conway</a>, a retired FBI counterterrorism agent who after 9/11 worked in Mexico trying to detect terrorists within the SIA flows. “How would you knowingly and wittingly bring people from terrorist countries into the United States with that level of vetting? Some of these terrorism countries don’t even have an electric grid let alone a computer system, and you can’t scrub them on databases that don’t exist. The whole thing is insane to me.
“What’s the motivation? I mean, why would they do that?” Conway added, referencing the Biden administration’s approval of SIAs for the CBP One entry program.
That’s a pertinent question that lawmakers, media pundits, and reporters might start asking before there’s blood in American streets.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter.
Correction: An earlier version of this article mentioned “George Washington University’s Counter Extremism Project.” The Counter Extremism Project, however, is not connected to George Washington University.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> approved plans for an offensive military campaign against the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as it begins to look to the next phase of its war against Islamic terrorism following the October 7 massacre.
Hezbollah released a video this week that they claimed showed that the group had new, advanced military capabilities &#8212; in this case, they figured out how to put a camera on a drone and fly it over Israel.
The leader of Hezbollah, Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, claimed that the terror group had &#8220;new weapons&#8221; in its arsenal.
&#8220;But I won’t say what they are,” he claimed. &#8220;When the decision is made, they will be seen on the front lines.&#8221;
He also said that if Israel launches an offensive campaign against the group, it will target the European nation of Cyprus for helping Israel and that it will &#8220;deliberately target&#8221; everything inside Israel.
Hezbollah has already fired more than 5,000 rockets, missiles, and drones at Israel since Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre more than eight months ago. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been forced out of their homes in northern Israel because of the continued terror attacks from Hezbollah.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this week that it had approved plans for an offensive campaign in Lebanon to take out Hezbollah.
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&#8220;As part of the situational assessment, operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated, and decisions were taken on the continuation of increasing the readiness of troops in the field,&#8221; the statement said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned Nasrallah that the IDF will completely destroy Hezbollah if it launches any kind of &#8220;all-out war.&#8221;
&#8220;Nasrallah boasts today about filming the ports of Haifa, operated by international companies from China and India, and threatens to attack them,&#8221; Katz said. &#8220;We are very close to the moment of decision to change the rules against Hezbollah and Lebanon. In an all-out war, Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon will be severely hit. The State of Israel will pay a price on the front and home fronts, but with a strong and united nation, and the full power of the IDF, we will restore security to the residents of the north.&#8221;
Joe Truzman, senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said that Nasrallah&#8217;s threats against Israel ignored basic realities that Hezbollah would have to deal with.
&#8220;The Hezbollah chief&#8217;s inflammatory rhetoric, laced with warnings and threats against Israel (including Cyprus), barely acknowledges a crucial aspect: Israel would retaliate with devastating consequences for Hezbollah and Lebanon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The bitter truth is that Nasrallah&#8217;s aggressive posturing would ultimately lead to a far greater toll on his side, as Israel would exact a severe price in an all-out war. By hardly recognizing this reality, Nasrallah&#8217;s words lose their bite.&#8221;
&#8220;While a war between Israel and Lebanon would undoubtedly have devastating consequences for both countries, it is important to acknowledge that Hezbollah&#8217;s decision to launch an attack on Israel on October 8 was the catalyst for this precarious situation,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;By initiating hostilities, Hezbollah has set in motion a chain of events that could lead to catastrophic outcomes.&#8221;

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White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean Pierre</a> dodged a question on Tuesday about whether President Joe Biden will release a statement condemning extremist remarks that were made at an Islamic event in Dearborn, Michigan, late last week.
Protesters at International Al-Quds Day <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-at-islamic-event-in-americas-jihad-capital-chant-death-to-america">event</a> — a day that exists to remind the Islamic world of their opposition to Israel and the U.S. — chanted “death to America!” and “death to Israel!” on the six month anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack on Israel.
Jean-Pierre said that she did not have any intelligence to share about whether officials were concerned about threats to national security involving individuals who participated in the event.
When asked if Biden would release a statement about the incident, which he has often done when it&#8217;s an issue sensitive to Democrats, Jean-Pierre dodged the question.
&#8220;I mean, you&#8217;re hearing from me, right? You&#8217;re asking me a question. I&#8217;m answering it and we&#8217;ve been very vigilant about – or very consistent about denouncing that type of that type of rhetoric,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Should we see a – should we expect a statement from the president on that?&#8221; the reporter pressed. &#8220;It was a pretty significant display.&#8221;
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Jean-Pierre responded, “I mean, you&#8217;re hearing from me. I think that&#8217;s important. The other part, too, that I do want to be very clear about – you know, peaceful protest is something that the president has also been very, very clear that is important for – to give folks space to peacefully protest, but any type of violent rhetoric, we are going to denounce.”
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Michigan activist Tarek Bazzi, who is affiliated with the Hadi Institute, said at the event in Dearborn: “We have been asked in the past why our protests on the International Al-Quds Day are so anti-America. Why don’t we just focus on Israel and not talk so much about America? Gaza has shown the entire world why their protests are so anti-America. Because it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about.”
“This is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America,” he continued.
As he spoke, chants of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” broke out.
“Malcolm X said, and I quote: ‘We live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth,'&#8221; he added. “It’s not Genocide Joe that has to go, it is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and devilry to happen and would support it — such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s earth. So when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist … The chant ‘Death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today.”
He also encouraged young children at the event to repeat the genocidal chant: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Michigan Imam Usama Abdulghani, who is also affiliated with the Hadi Institute, said at the event in Dearborn: “Imam Khomeini recognized that Israel is an evil settler colonialist project. He realized it was a cancer and he established this day.”
“Israel before this, brothers and sisters, was a sacred cow. Nobody could criticize Israel. Everybody was terrified of being anti-Semitic,” he said. “Everybody was afraid of them, but now the people of conscience very openly will criticize Israel. They recognize Israel for what it is. Israel is ISIS, they are Nazis, they are fascists, they are racists. The people of the world now know this.”

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Dozens of people were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists at a concert hall in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia&#8217;s</a> capital city on Friday night in scenes that went viral on social media.
The attack, which was the deadliest terror attack on Russian soil in over a decade, happened at a sold-out concert at Crocus City Hall as the rock band Piknik was set to begin performing.
At least four men wearing camo began massacring people outside with fully automatic weapons in highly disturbing scenes that were caught on video. At least 40 people were killed and more than 140 injured, with those numbers likely to rise.
The attack came two weeks after the U.S. warned Americans in Moscow to avoid large public gatherings — specifically concerts — because terrorists were planning an attack. The New York Times said that the warning was directly related to the attack that unfolded and that U.S. officials specifically reached out and warned the Russians.
ISIS took responsibility for the terrorist attack, saying in a statement that they attacked &#8220;a large gathering of Christians,&#8221; causing hundreds of casualties before fleeing the scene.
The U.S. Intelligence Community collected intelligence in March indicating that a branch of ISIS was planning a terrorist attack in Moscow, which led to the U.S. State Department issuing a warning earlier this month urging Americans to avoid large crowd.
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“ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years,” Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, told The New York Times, noting that the terrorist group has focused on attacking Putin in propaganda videos. “ISIS-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood in its hands, referencing Moscow’s interventions in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.”
The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-secretly-warned-iran-that-isis-was-plotting-terror-attack-iran-didnt-listen-and-dozens-were-murdered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> Iran about an ISIS terrorist attack back in January that the terror group later successfully executed when it carried out suicide bombings in the southeastern town of Kerman, killing 84 people with hundreds more injured.

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Law enforcement officials in Italy arrested three Palestinians this week at the start of Ramadan for allegedly planning to conduct terror attacks on foreign soil.
Italian police did not disclose the names of the three Islamic terrorist suspects but said that they were connected to the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades.
&#8220;The suspects engaged in proselytism and propaganda (&#8230;) and planned attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign territory,&#8221; police <a href="https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/199665eee7d0e77c1487527864">said</a>.
The arrests happened in the Italian city of L’Aquila where the suspects made contact with an existing terror cell.
“It is rare for terrorist organizations such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades to orchestrate schemes to target civilians on foreign soil,” said Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal. “However, this heinous plot serves as a stark reminder that this group and its affiliates in the West Bank and Gaza are not ‘resistance fighters,’ as they claim to be, but cold-blooded terrorists with the sole purpose of inflicting death and destruction.”
David May, FDD Research Manager and Senior Research Analyst, added: “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are linked to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s supposedly moderate Fatah party. Italy’s arrest of the three terrorists planning attacks underscores the folly of treating Abbas and the PA as peace partners.”
Numerous Islamic terror suspects have been arrested throughout Europe for plotting attacks in the months following Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel.
During the massacre, 1,200 people were murdered, 5,300+ were injured, and hundreds more were taken hostage.
Israel launched a military offensive inside Gaza following the attacks and has so far eliminated at least 13,000 terrorists, Israel said this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-blasts-biden-for-criticizing-israels-military-strategy-hes-wrong-on-both-counts">Netanyahu Blasts Biden For Criticizing Israel’s Military Strategy: ‘He’s Wrong On Both Counts’</a>

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German authorities have detained five individuals over a suspected Islamic terror plot to blow up the Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve. 
Police detained a 30-year-old Tajik man in connection with the alleged plan last week, which authorities say was going to involve an attack on the historic church involving car bombs. On Sunday, police <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-cologne-cathedral-threat-detention-extremism-282b5967185cc54fc02d1970371d07c4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> they had detained three more suspects in the cities of  Duisburg, Herne, and Dueren, all in western Germany. A fifth individual, a 41-year-old German-Turkish man, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-cologne-cathedral-threat-detention-extremism-1a563072df853c808187197cde1e0ca4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detained</a> on Monday. 
Cologne police official Frank Wissbaum said he was glad the suspects were in custody so they could “no longer communicate with each other.&#8221; 
Cologne police said that the individuals detained were not plotting alone but linked to a terror network that operates throughout Germany and Europe. Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine–Westphalia, the state where the cathedral is located, thanked authorities for their “success” in preventing an attack. 
Access to the cathedral was limited following the discovery of plans for the attack. One thousand police officers were stationed at the church on Sunday, and the parking garage was also searched for explosives.
“Islamist terror is still a threat on German streets,” Reul said. “We have often suppressed that. And whenever there is a one-off event like this, we are all very electrified again.”
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The Cologne Cathedral is one of the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cologne-Cathedral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most well-known</a> churches in Germany. Construction began around 1248 and continued intermittently for hundreds of years. It was completed in 1880 and is believed to have been the tallest building in the world for about four years. The structure is still recognized as the biggest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. 
Authorities throughout Europe and the U.S. have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/plane-carrying-379-people-catches-on-fire-after-runway-crash-in-tokyo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on high alert</a> for terror threats in the wake of Hamas attacks on Israel. Police in Austria have made arrests over suspected terror plots and were concerned that St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna might be targeted in an attack.

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A New Jersey man has been accused of attempting to help al-Shabaab, a radical Islamic terrorist group based in Somalia, after allegedly being inspired by Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel. 
Karrem Nasr, a 23-year-old American citizen, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-jersey-man-charged-attempting-provide-material-support-al-shabaab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in Nairobi, Kenya on December 14 and was charged with attempting to aid a foreign terrorist organization. Nasr made his first appearance in court on Friday, according to the Justice Department. If convicted, Nasr could face up to 20 years in prison. 
“As alleged, Karrem Nasr, motivated by the heinous terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, devoted himself to waging violent jihad against America and its allies. Nasr, a citizen of this country, traveled from Egypt to Kenya bent on joining and training with al Shabaab so that he could execute his jihadist mission of death and destruction,” U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement. “Nasr was prepared to kill and be killed to support the jihadist cause, and in his own words, he described America as ‘evil’ and the ‘head of the snake.’”
According to the criminal complaint, Nasr is a supported of al-Shabaab and moved to Egypt in July 2023. Al-Shabaab has been behind deadly attacks on Americans and frequently targets Christians in Africa. 
In messages with a confidential FBI source, Nasr allegedly said that “evil America” was the number one enemy and that “Jihad” was “coming soon to a US location near you.” The complaint says that Nasr was planning on joining al-Shabaab in Somalia for training and later terror attacks, but he was detained in Kenya before he could join up with the group. 
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 “Instead of embracing all that the United States had to offer him, Mr. Nasr allegedly moved abroad and committed himself to supporting a foreign terrorist organization. The provision of support to such a group – particularly by an American citizen – is a heinous threat to our entire country and way of life,” said NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban, who was at the announcement of the complaint. 
The U.S. and Europe have faced increasing terrorist threats following Hamas’ October 7 attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead. Earlier this month, German and Austrian police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/austrian-german-police-arrest-foreign-muslims-planning-terror-attacks-on-christmas-targets-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> multiple suspected Islamic terrorists who were allegedly planning terrorist attacks on Christmas or New Year’s Eve.

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