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USA issue nationwide terror warning - right-wing extremist groups threaten domestic security

2021-01-29T05:17:01.624Z


The Department of Homeland Security has issued a nationwide terror warning in the United States. Due to extremist groups, there is currently an "increased threat environment".


The Department of Homeland Security has issued a nationwide terror warning in the United States.

Due to extremist groups, there is currently an "increased threat environment".

  • The

    Department of Homeland Security

    of the

    United States

    has a nationwide on Wednesday (01/27/2021)

    Terrorwarnung

    proclaimed.

  • Due to the

    storming of the Capitol, there

    is currently an “

    increased threat environment

    ”.

  • Right-wing extremist groups

    are seen as a massive

    threat

    .

Washington DC - The pictures of the

storming of the Capitol *

by radical supporters of

former President Donald Trump

and

right-wing extremist groups

went around the world in early January.

One policeman was killed in the attack.

A total of five people were killed.

By storming the residence of the American Congress, the final

confirmation of Biden's election victory was to be

prevented.

The event illustrated what radical circles among Trump supporters are willing and able to do.

The

US authorities

have now drawn a momentous conclusion three weeks after the storming of the Capitol.

A

nationwide terrorist alert was

issued in light of the January 6th events and warnings of renewed violence

.

The responsible

Ministry of Homeland Security

named the reason for this decision on Wednesday that “ideologically motivated violent extremists” could incite or commit violent acts.

Therefore, there is currently an "

increased threat environment

".

Nationwide terror alert: radical Trump supporters and conspiracy ideologues massive threat

The ministry did not precisely identify the “violent extremists”.

The

terror alert

mentions “ideologically motivated violent extremists who object to the exercise of government authority and the handover of the presidency”.

There is also talk of extremists who are spurred on by misinformation.

Two indirect descriptions by

radical Trump supporters

and

conspiracy ideologues

.

Since the storming of the Capitol, new

excesses of violence

by

right-wing extremist militias and supporters of conspiracy theories have been

feared.

According to the Ministry of Homeland Security, there is currently no indication of impending attacks, but there is still an "increased threat environment" throughout the country.

In the next few weeks and months, therefore, there may be new violence.

Therefore, the

terror warning

applies

up to and including April

.

Today Acting Secretary Pekoske issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin: https://t.co/e1vnghZulO.

There is currently a heightened threat environment across the US that is likely to persist over the coming weeks.

- Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 27, 2021

Domestic terror: increased violence from extremist circles

Attacks on politicians and government buildings

are

particularly

feared by the ministry.

The events on January 6th could

motivate

extremists

to do so.

Already last year there was increased violence by extremist circles in the country.

The main triggers in these cases were frustration with the

Corona *

measures

, the

outcome of the presidential election *

in November and individual cases of

police violence

.

Due to the excess of violence at the beginning of this year, the

inauguration of the new President Joe Biden *

was

carried out

under the strictest

security precautions

.

Around 25,000 National Guardsmen were deployed in

Washington DC

and protect the largely cordoned off Congress.

According to the

New York Times

, an intelligence official who was involved in the decision to issue the terrorist alert said that the peaceful inauguration could create a false sense of security: "The intention to use violence" has "not disappeared."

Donald Trump: downplaying right-wing violence during his presidency

During

Donald Trump's tenure

, the threat posed by extremist groups domestically was downplayed.

For example, after the deadly extremist

protest in Charlottesville Virginia *

in 2017,

Donald Trump said

that there were “very good people on both sides”.

Last year, in the course of the

Black Lives Matter

movement,

Donald Trump declared

the “radical left” to be the real threat, while he did not denounce right-wing extremist groups.

Even after the

Department of

Homeland Security named

right-wing extremist groups as the primary threat to

domestic

security

in September 2019

, ex-President

Trump *

did not change course.

In this context, there are currently even allegations that individual secret service employees have been urged to emphasize the threat posed by the left and to downplay the danger posed by right-wing extremist groups.

Terror warning: Storming of the Capitol and mass murder in El Paso

In addition to the

storming of the Capitol

, a

mass shooting in El Paso

, which was directed against Hispanic residents, was

carried out for the declaration of the terror warning

.

According to the Ministry of Homeland Security, both events clearly show that the currently racist extremist group

poses

the greatest threat to

internal security

.

National security: domestic and foreign terrorists

After the

terrorist attack of September 11, 2001

, predominantly foreign terrorists were seen as a threat to internal security.

Over the years, however, this shifted to an increased perception of radical groups domestically as a serious threat.

(

at) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital network.

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Source: merkur

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