While law enforcement agencies in the United States have not announced immediate plans to boost visible police presence in light of a strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq, multiple agencies say they are keeping a watchful eye on events overseas and will adjust as appropriate or as intelligence warrants.
There is concern that Iran could retaliate and that U.S. interests overseas could be targeted or that proxies could be deployed to strike Americans or their interests abroad, sources said.
Those areas include Africa and South America, as well as Yemen and Lebanon, they said.
The Defense Department late Thursday announced the death of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's secretive Quds Force, in a strike said to have occurred near Baghdad International Airport.
The strike, which the Pentagon said was conducted at President Donald Trump's direction, comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, and it could ratchet up the conflict.
U.S. law enforcement officials say the first step is for various Joint Terrorism Task Forces — groupings of local police and the FBI — to check in with their Hezbollah sources and with sources in Iran or sympathetic communities. They will want to know whether any Hezbollah-connected individuals who have been investigated previously may need a second look in light of Soleimani's death.
In November, a New York City man who considered himself a "sleeper agent" of Hezbollah, Iran's state-sponsored terrorist organization, was sentenced to 40 years in prison .
Federal prosecutors said at the time that the man, Ali Kourani, was "recruited, trained and deployed by Hezbollah's Islamic Jihad Organization" to plan and execute terrorist attacks around New York, although none were carried out. As part of the case, prosecutors revealed the group's drive to accumulate bomb-making materials from China and to stockpile them around the world.
The New York Police Department said they are monitoring the situation in Iran.
"While there are no specific or credible threats in New York City, the Department has deployed additional resources to sensitive locations across the city out of an abundance of caution," spokeswoman Devora Kaye said in a statement.
A top law enforcement official said it is important that the intelligence community is tuned in to foreign interceptions of communications that could be used to detect possible attack planning and directives from Iran.
Source: NBC news
_---------_-----------_
Just in:
Trump: Soleimani 'should have been taken out many years ago' Donald Trump on Friday said Qassem Soleimani "should have been taken out many years ago" accusing the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ overseas force had killed or injured "thousands of Americans over an extended period of time". In a duo of tweets, the US president said: General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more...but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number.... ...of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself.
While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago! The comments followed Mr Trump's previous tweets: a photo of the American flag and a remark that Iran had never won a war but never lost a negotiation.
There is concern that Iran could retaliate and that U.S. interests overseas could be targeted or that proxies could be deployed to strike Americans or their interests abroad, sources said.
Those areas include Africa and South America, as well as Yemen and Lebanon, they said.
The Defense Department late Thursday announced the death of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's secretive Quds Force, in a strike said to have occurred near Baghdad International Airport.
The strike, which the Pentagon said was conducted at President Donald Trump's direction, comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, and it could ratchet up the conflict.
U.S. law enforcement officials say the first step is for various Joint Terrorism Task Forces — groupings of local police and the FBI — to check in with their Hezbollah sources and with sources in Iran or sympathetic communities. They will want to know whether any Hezbollah-connected individuals who have been investigated previously may need a second look in light of Soleimani's death.
In November, a New York City man who considered himself a "sleeper agent" of Hezbollah, Iran's state-sponsored terrorist organization, was sentenced to 40 years in prison .
Federal prosecutors said at the time that the man, Ali Kourani, was "recruited, trained and deployed by Hezbollah's Islamic Jihad Organization" to plan and execute terrorist attacks around New York, although none were carried out. As part of the case, prosecutors revealed the group's drive to accumulate bomb-making materials from China and to stockpile them around the world.
The New York Police Department said they are monitoring the situation in Iran.
"While there are no specific or credible threats in New York City, the Department has deployed additional resources to sensitive locations across the city out of an abundance of caution," spokeswoman Devora Kaye said in a statement.
A top law enforcement official said it is important that the intelligence community is tuned in to foreign interceptions of communications that could be used to detect possible attack planning and directives from Iran.
Source: NBC news
_---------_-----------_
Just in:
Trump: Soleimani 'should have been taken out many years ago' Donald Trump on Friday said Qassem Soleimani "should have been taken out many years ago" accusing the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ overseas force had killed or injured "thousands of Americans over an extended period of time". In a duo of tweets, the US president said: General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more...but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number.... ...of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself.
While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago! The comments followed Mr Trump's previous tweets: a photo of the American flag and a remark that Iran had never won a war but never lost a negotiation.
No comments:
Post a Comment