Defective Detectives at FBI Missed Another Terrorist in Va. Knife Attack

The FBI has launched an investigation into an alleged ISIS-inspired knife attack in Roanoke, Virginia. Investigators are attempting to determine if the attacker may have been trying to behead his victim, reports ABC News.

The alleged attacker is 20-year-old Wasil Farooqui, a resident of the Roanoke area. Federal authorities have known about him “for some time,” according to ABC News. In the past year, he traveled to Turkey and sources say may have tried to sneak into Syria, where ISIS is actively recruiting.

On Saturday, Farooqui allegedly injured a man and woman at an apartment complex, yelling “Allah Akbar” as he attacked them with a knife. Authorities believe he may have been trying to behead the male victim.

“‘The FBI is working with the Police Department following the incident that occurred on Saturday evening,’ the head of the FBI’s Richmond field office, Special Agent In Charge Adam Lee, said in a statement. ‘While I cannot discuss details of the investigation at this time, I do want to reassure the community that we are working to determine the nature of the incident.'”

If this is indeed a terrorist attack, it could mark yet another instance of an individual on the FBI’s radar for terrorist connections carrying out an act of jihad before authorities could stop him.

In his book, “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists,” Peter Bergen identified several instances of law enforcement failing to cooperate with other law enforcement agencies and missing homegrown terrorists as a result.

As Conservative Review’s Robert Eno wrote in a review of Bergen’s book:

Bergen makes a strong case for a reliance on traditional police-work techniques to ferreting out homegrown radicals. This includes the sharing of information between agencies, something that was supposed to have changed after 9/11. Bergen explains how it hasn’t. Time and time again, Bergen shows that law enforcement is still not connecting dots, and not sharing information.

Farooqui was arrested by Roanoke County Police Saturday on charges of assault with malicious wounding.

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