Terror threat facing US at all-time high since Israel-Hamas war began | US News

The threat of a terrorist attack facing the US since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has reached a level ‘never seen’ before, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Wray said ‘the threat level has gone to a whole nother level since October 7’, the day that Hamas launched surprise air, land and sea attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip.

‘I see blinking red lights everywhere,’ said Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Senator Lindsey Graham had asked the FBI director to discuss the ‘threat matrix’ to the US.

‘What I would say that is unique about the environment that we’re in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now,’ Wray said, ‘I’ve never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.’

Graham brought up the blinking red lights analogy around 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.

‘All the lights were blinking red before 9/11, apparently. Obviously, all of us missed it. Would you say there’s multiple blinking red lights out there?’ Graham asked.

That’s when Wray said he was seeing the blinking lights ‘everywhere’. He added that a ‘veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorists’ has called for attacks against the US since the October 7 massacre.

Wray’s remarks came as US forces have increasingly become targeted in the Middle East. American troops or bases have been struck at least 74 times in Iraq and Syria since October 17, reportedly due to over the US supporting Israel.

Meanwhile on American soil on Friday, the FBI stopped a terror plot by a teenager who allegedly posted his plan on social media for ‘lone wolf operations in Las Vegas against the enemies of Allah’. The 16-year-old suspect who pledged support to the Islamic State (ISIS) was arrested after FBI agents and local police found he had terrorist propaganda and pieces to build an explosive device.

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