Volume 5
June 2016 Edition
June Terror Threat Snapshot Released
by Chairman McCaul
can retreat to enhance its capabilities and advance
its nefarious agenda. This moment demands true
Michael Thomas McCaul, U.S. Representative for Texas’s 10th congressional
district and Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security
leadership and a vision for a global order that secures us and our allies.”
The June Terror Threat Snapshot was released today by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mi-
Key takeaways in this month’s Terror Threat Snap-
chael McCaul (R-TX). The “snapshot” is a monthly
shot:
Committee assessment of the growing threat Ameri-
• ISIS and its global affiliates pose a persistent
ca, the West, and the world face from ISIS and other
threat, including here in the U.S. where authori-
Islamist terrorists.
ties are investigating more than 800 ISIS-linked
cases.
“We face a challenging threat environment here at
• ISIS and al Qaeda maintain safe havens from
home as Islamist extremists abroad have dug into
where they can recruit, train, and deploy opera-
their core sanctuaries and expanded into new ter-
tives to launch attacks in the West.
ritory,” said Chairman McCall. “ISIS sympathizers
• Waves of dangerous foreign fighters are return-
and fighters continue to wreak havoc, launching
ing home from Syria and Iraq, particularly to
murderous attacks from Baghdad to Brussels to
Europe, where Islamist terror operatives have
San Bernardino. ISIS remains entrenched in its core
infiltrated borders by posing as refugees.
bases in Raqqa and Mosul while it exploits vacuums
• A terrorist whom President Obama released
to expand its networks in places like North Africa.
from Guantanamo in 2012 has assumed an
Al Qaeda and its affiliates also pose a continuing
increasingly prominent role with al Qaeda’s af-
threat as they operate from safe havens, including
filiate in Yemen, highlighting the threat of recidi-
in Syria and Yemen. Meanwhile, the world’s primary
vism among former detainees.
state sponsor of terror, Iran, has seized on Ameri-
• The Iranian regime’s support for terror contin30