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How America’s willful blindness has stoked the Islamist terror threat

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15.03.2026

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How America’s willful blindness has stoked the Islamist terror threat

After four separate terrorist attacks in the last two weeks on US soil, Americans are on edge.

It’s taken me back to 2003 and a barren outpost in Khost, Afghanistan, where I interrogated a high-value target while serving with the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team.

“You’ll go back to your country. But this struggle will follow you there,” the detainee pronounced, through an interpreter.

“We can be patient. You Americans certainly are not. We will wait you out. And the fight will continue.”

On March 1, a radical Islamist and naturalized citizen from Senegal shot up a bar in Austin, Texas, murdering three.

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On March 7, two teenaged jihadi wannabes from Pennsylvania — children of naturalized citizens from Afghanistan and Turkey — tossed homemade bombs at cops and protesters outside Gracie Mansion in New York City.

On Thursday, radical Islamists in Virginia and Michigan carried out two independent attacks: In one, a convicted ISIS-inspired terrorist from Sierra Leone killed a decorated ROTC instructor; in the other, an armed gunman — a naturalized citizen from Lebanon — attempted to smash his explosives-laden vehicle into a Jewish........

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