ISIS Boasts To Currently have ’71 Trained Soldiers’ In Specific U.S. States

The episode in Garland “is a prime example of the difference between a gun free zone and Texas.”

Supposed ISIS jihadists circulated threats towards the United States Tuesday, suggesting the group has skilled soldiers situated throughout the country, prepared to attack “any target we desire.”

The web based posting singles out bold blogger Pamela Geller, one of the coordinators of the “Draw the Prophet” Muhammad cartoon competition in Garland, Texas, over the weekend, avocating for her death to “heal the hearts of our brothers and disperse the ones behind her.”

ISIS additionally maintained accountability early Tuesday for the shooting, which noted the 1st occasion the terror group professed liability for an attack on U.S. soil, as outlined by the New York Daily News.

“The attack by the Islamic State in America is only the beginning of our efforts to establish a wiliyah [authority or governance] in the heart of our enemy,” the ISIS posting states.

Regarding Geller, the jihadists express: “To those who protect her: this will be your only warning of housing this woman and her circus show. Everyone who houses her events, gives her a platform to spill her filth are legitimate targets. We have been watching closely who was present at this event and the shooter of our brothers.”

ISIS additionally boasts to have identified that the Muhammad cartoon competition location would be intensely protected, but performed the attack to show the determination of its followers to perish for the “Sake of Allah.”

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, in truth, supplied a message on April 20 suggesting the function would be a probable terror target.

ISIS pulled its communication to a close with a portentous threat:

We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah [if God wills]. Of the 15 states, 5 we will name… Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan…The next six months will be interesting.

Fox News accounts that “the U.S. intelligence community was assessing the threat and trying to determine if the source is directly related to ISIS leadership or an opportunist such as a low-level militant seeking to further capitalize on the Garland incident.”

Ex – Navy Seal Rob O’Neill explained to Fox News he thinks the ISIS threat is legitimate, and the U.S. must be ready. He included that the occurrence in Garland “is a prime example of the difference between a gun free zone and Texas. They showed up at Charlie Hebdo, and it was a massacre. If these two guys had gotten into that building it would have been Charlie Hebdo times ten. But these two guys showed up because they were offended by something protected by the First Amendment, and were quickly introduced to the Second Amendment.”

Geller released a statement concerning the ISIS posting: “This threat illustrates the savagery and barbarism of the Islamic State. They want me dead for violating Sharia blasphemy laws. What remains to be seen is whether the free world will finally wake up and stand for the freedom of speech, or instead kowtow to this evil and continue to denounce me.”