6 times ISIS has inspired terrorist attacks on US soil

Investigators investigate deadly New Year’s Eve‘Independence Day terror attack in New Orleans says suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar blew up a Islamic State flag in the back of the van used to mow down dozens of innocent revelers, killing at least 14 of them.

Jabbar, a former Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, joined ISIS before this summer and posted several videos on Facebook declaring his support for the group before it carried out the heinous attack. Christopher Raja, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI he said Thursday.

“In the first video, Jabbar explains that he was only planning to harm his family and friends, but that he was worried that the news headlines were not focusing on the ‘war between believers and disbelievers,'” Raja said.

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But what exactly is ISIS and how many attacks has it been responsible for in the United States?

ISIS, IS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a terrorist group splinter from Al Qaeda that has carried out and inspired terrorist attacks around the world, causing thousands of deaths and injuries, according to the Director of National Intelligence.

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The group embraces Sunni Islamist ideology that seeks to establish a global caliphate, a global Islamic state governed by a strict interpretation of Sharia law.

In addition to terrorist attacks, the group is known to carry out video beheadings and systematic rape and other acts of sexual violence against members of other religions. The group also attacks other Sunni Muslims who deviate from its harsh interpretation of Islam.

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Under former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS seized huge amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Al-Baghdadi was killed by the US Joint Special Operations Command in 2019 and US-backed forces expelled ISIS from its last stronghold in Syria before declaring victory over the terrorist group, although it continues to operate clandestinely there and in Iraq.

The group’s roots date back to 2004, when an Iraqi extremist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi merged with al-Qaeda to form ISIS’s predecessor group, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2013, AQI changed its name to ISIS and in 2014 the group split from Al Qaeda, declaring itself a caliphate and seizing vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.

Experts say that the group inspires psychotic sympathizers to commit “lone wolf” attacks that blur the line between random crime and terrorism.

ISIS has become decentralized compared to a decade ago, and some experts argue that ISIS is powerful today in part as a brand, inspiring both militant groups and individuals in attacks in which the group itself may have no real role.

The group’s creed and its military successes have led armed extremist organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe to pledge allegiance to it.

ISIS has inspired several terrorist attacks on American soil over the past decade. Here are six.

Omar Mateen opened fire on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, hosting “Noche Latina” in June 2016, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others in the deadliest terrorism-related mass shooting in U.S. history. Joined.

The FBI previously said it carried out the mass shooting in support of ISIS.

Mateen was born to Afghan parents in New York in 1986 and lived in Port St. Lucie, Florida. He was killed after a three-hour standoff with members of the SWAT team.

Wednesday’s terrorist attack in New Orleans was carried out by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who got behind the wheel of a white van and plowed into dozens of revelers along the city’s famous Bourbon Street, leaving 14 people dead.

The FBI said Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen from Texas, drove the rented Ford pickup loaded with an ISIS flag, weapons and a possible improvised explosive device (IED) into a crowd at approximately 3:15 a.m. local time. Wednesday and injured more than 30 people.

He later died in a shootout with police.

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In 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party, killing 14 people and wounding more than 20.

The couple, both Muslims, died after a shootout with police.

The FBI said the pair were “homegrown violent extremists” inspired by foreign terrorist groups, although the agency did not specifically say they were inspired by ISIS.

Reports at the time said Malik, who was born in Pakistan and was in the US with a green card, pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook while the shooting was occurring.

He died in a shootout with a member of the SWAT team.

Sayfullo Saipov, a native of Uzbekistan, killed eight people by driving a truck into a bike path filled with cyclists and runners in New York City in 2017.

Six of those killed were foreign tourists, while thirteen were injured, including a Belgian woman who had both legs amputated. New York prosecutors described the vehicle-ramming terrorist event as the worst terrorist attack since 9/11.

A Black Banner flag, one of the flags flown by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a document indicating allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were found in the truck.

Saipov, a green card holder at the time, received 10 life sentences plus 260 years in prison.

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Somali student Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car into a crowd at Ohio State University in November 2016 before stabbing several pedestrians with a butcher knife.

The attack left 11 people injured before Artan was shot dead by a university police officer.

Law enforcement sources told Fox News at the time that they believed the attacker was “self-radicalized” by ISIS propaganda.

Artan also praised American-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a “hero” and criticized American interference in Muslim lands in a series of Facebook posts, officials said.

Akayed Ullah, inspired by ISIS detonate a homemade bomb which partially exploded in New York City’s busiest subway station in 2017.

The device targeted the pedestrian tunnel between Times Square and the Port Authority stops in Manhattan.

Ullah was arrested after his bomb failed to fully explode, causing him severe burns. The explosion caused panic but only caused minor injuries to three people who were near him.

After becoming angry with American foreign policy in the Middle East, Ullah became consumed by the Islamic State’s online propaganda “glorifying stabbings, shootings and brutally violent attacks against Americans,” prosecutors argued in Manhattan federal court.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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