Some 2 million people, worldwide, were on the U.S. government’s Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS) as of the beginning of 2024. Among those 2 million people are about 6,000 Americans with suspected ties to international terror groups. Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was not among the Americans on TSDS’s watchlist.

In the early hours of March 1, Diagne opened fire on a bar in Austin, Texas, murdering three people and wounding 13 others. The attack occurred a little more than 24 hours after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury in response to Iran’s growing threats to regional and international security.

Local and federal law enforcement are investigating the shooting as a “possible terrorist” incident, although the “Property of Allah” hoodie and the t-shirt with the revolutionary flag of Iran he was wearing, along with the Quran found in his car, might provide some clues to his motive.

Then there were his social media posts. “THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL AND HERE TO STAY UNTIL THE END OF TIME, you Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can’t do a d--- thing about it, no matter what,” he posted on X last August.

Diagne was not among the 2 million illegal alien “gotaways” who........

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