Fighting Terrorism Remains Justice Department's Top Priority
By Paul Davis
With attention on the Israeli and Ukrainian wars, and with no terrorist attacks directly targeting Americans on U.S. soil in some time, counterterrorism has taken a back seat.
But two recent federal prosecutions last month indicate that we still need to be on guard against terrorism.
On October 8, 2024, the Justice Department announced charges against an Afghanistan citizen living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for conspiring to conduct an Election Day terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
