Homeland Security Committee says 'national security blunders' of past 4 years have emboldened terrorists

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said Wednesday the "national information blunders of the past 4 years" person "emboldened" foreign violent organizations (FTOs) and homegrown convulsive extremism.

The committee connected Wednesday greeting released an updated mentation of its Terror Threat Snapshot assessment, highlighting threats posed by homegrown extremists inspired by overseas jihadist networks similar ISIS successful America and astir the world.

"Emboldened by the nationalist information blunders of the past 4 years, overseas violent organizations and jihadist networks overseas stay committed to recruiting and radicalizing individuals connected U.S. soil."

The updated study comes little than a period aft Texas autochthonal and U.S. subject seasoned Shamsud-Din Jabbar killed 14 civilians Jan. 1, erstwhile helium drove a motortruck done crowds of New Year's revelers connected Bourbon Street astir 3 a.m. successful what national authorities described arsenic an ISIS-inspired violent attack.

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"The New Orleans violent onslaught was a stark reminder that the panic menace to America is live and persistent," Green said. "The House Homeland Security Committee highlighted this information backmost successful October, and, sadly, Americans person witnessed large escalations successful these threats conscionable successful the past 3 months."

The study details much than 50 jihadist cases crossed 30 states betwixt April 2021 and January 2025, including "dozens of attempts to supply worldly enactment to ISIS," "providing worldly enactment to Hizballah and al Qaeda," "receiving military-type grooming from ISIS and Hizballah" and "vehicle ramming attacks."

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Officials connected Bourbon Street aft a conveyance traveled into a assemblage connected New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

From the botched Afghanistan withdrawal successful August 2021 to the New Orleans attack, the study includes a elaborate database of each alarming terrorist-inspired attacks and arrests since erstwhile President Biden took bureau 4 years ago. 

"There is nary question that our nationalist information is successful a authorities of disrepair aft the past 4 years of failed leadership."

Subcommittee connected Counterterrorism and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger said Wednesday that "Americans person been the people of panic astatine nationalist celebrations, and ISIS and al Qaeda are emboldened successful the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

The FBI released photos of surveillance footage that amusement Shamsud-Din Jabbar an hr earlier helium drove a motortruck down Bourbon Street successful New Orleans aboriginal Jan. 1, 2025. (FBI via AP)

"There is immense enactment to bash to close people and bolster our homeland security. That enactment begins now."

The committee besides noted that vehicular-ramming attacks similar the 1 successful New Orleans are emerging arsenic a important and increasing threat.

Multiple victims of the New Orleans onslaught person sued the metropolis for negligence, citing aggregate instances erstwhile the menace of a violent onslaught connected Bourbon Street was mentioned successful authoritative metropolis readying documents.

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Investigators converge aft a idiosyncratic drove a conveyance into a assemblage connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

One suit filed connected behalf of 7 victims by Morris Bart, LLC, says the defendants "had years of opportunities to hole this known problem," and "[c]ity contractors failed to unrecorded up to contractual obligations and execute enactment successful the bid and mode specified.

"One script presented by [contractor] Mott MacDonald 8 months earlier this calamity adjacent progressive a Ford F-150 motortruck specifically turning close connected to Bourbon Street from Canal Street, a shockingly akin menace that was seemingly predictable earlier December 31."

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Police analyse a transgression connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025. A operator plowed into crowds of New Year’s revelers and began firing a limb successful the aboriginal hours of the morning. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Official recommendations for New Orleans information measures successful the French Quarter arsenic portion of a $2.3 cardinal infrastructure task that began successful 2017 included the installment of caller bollards connected Bourbon Street to forestall wide casualty events the FBI identified arsenic a imaginable menace successful the fashionable tourer area.

The metropolis began readying updated information measures, including bollards meant to halt vehicles from entering engaged streets successful the French Quarter, astir that time.

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"The French Quarter is often densely packed with pedestrians and represents an country wherever a wide casualty incidental could occur," a 2017 study states. "This country besides presents a hazard and people country for coercion that the FBI has identified arsenic a interest that the City indispensable address. 

"Following the attacks successful Nice, France; successful London, England; and the caller NYC Times Square incidental that cited bollards saved lives, it has go wide however fashionable tourer areas tin beryllium threatened by attackers with vehicles and weapons."

A masked Islamic State violent poses holding the ISIS emblem successful 2015.  (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A separate, confidential 2019 study obtained by Fox News from information consulting steadfast Interfor International, warned Bourbon Street was the "most high-profile target" successful New Orleans for a panic attack. The 60-page information appraisal commissioned by the French Quarter Management District states bluntly, "The existent bollard strategy connected Bourbon Street does not look to work." 

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The FBI continues to analyse the onslaught and said Jabbar was motivated by ISIS extremism.

Federal authorities announced past week that Jabbar had antecedently visited New Orleans connected 2 occasions — erstwhile connected Oct. 30, 2024, and again connected Nov. 10, 2024. The attacker besides visited Cairo, Egypt, and Toronto, Canada, anterior to the attack, the FBI said.

While Jabbar seemingly acted alone, authorities are inactive investigating whether helium had immoderate accomplices.