U.S. officials are warning of a major terror attack following the ISIS attacks in Moscow due to the country’s open borders.
Islamic State terrorist group ISIS took responsibility for the attack on a Moscow concert hall, which left 139 people dead.
Lawmakers fear that the U.S. could be next.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul, warned America had gone backward and is at massive risk of a jihadist attack.
When asked if the Moscow massacre could be repeated in the United States, he said, “I think so,” adding that Europe is in danger too.
“It’s sort of like we’re going back to that old playbook where history repeats itself,” explained McCaul.
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“And that’s why the fall of Afghanistan, the way it was done, and the way we left it with no ISR capability, that intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, puts us in danger, where this is a new battleground training group for ISIS.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. said FBI Director Christopher Wray told him ISIS was trying to smuggle terrorists into the U.S. as illegal immigrants, something former president Donald Trump has been warning of for months.
“They’ll do it here in the homeland,” Rubio said.
“I think we should be very concerned as the FBI director confirmed to me that there is a wing – there is a trafficking network out there that specializes in moving people.”
“They do it for profit, moving people and migrants around the world, including across our southern border, who have links to ISIS.”
“I think common sense tells you, if they run a trafficking network of people, they would most certainly use it to move operatives into the United States,” he added.
“So, I’m not claiming there’s an imminent threat to the U.S., but I am saying that border situation and that existence of that network is a threat to the United States,” Rubio warned.
As we reported on Tuesday, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov claimed that the U.S. and U.K. were behind the Moscow attacks.
“We believe that the attack was prepared by both the radical Islamists themselves, and naturally the Western intelligence services contributed to this, and the Ukrainian intelligence services themselves are directly involved in this,” Bortnikov said in an interview with Rossiya 1.”
He claimed the goal of the attack was “To shake up the situation, create panic in society.”
The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack after it published videos taken by the gunmen as they massacred innocent people at the concert hall.
The United States Government blamed the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the Afghan ISIS affiliate, for the attack.
The U.S.’s National Security Council spokeswoman, Adrienne Watson, said ISIS has “sole responsibility for this attack.”
“There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.”
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