SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS – For months, U.S. officers have sounded obscure however ominous alarms about the specter of terrorism within the U.S. – most noteworthy, maybe, FBI Director Christopher Wray’s warning of “blinking lights in every single place” suggesting potential threats to the nation. When Wray used the phrase, in Senate testimony final December, he little question had ISIS-Ok on his checklist of worries; now, within the wake of a serious terror assault in Moscow, the group’s place on that checklist has most likely jumped a couple of notches.
The Islamic State Khorasan – identified additionally as ISIS-Ok, or IS-Ok, is comparatively younger, based in 2015 by members of the Pakistani Taliban, and maybe finest identified for a suicide bombing on the Kabul Airport in August 2021, within the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. That blast killed 170 civilians and 13 American service members.
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