Terror Expert: Look Who May Try to Disrupt November Election
As the number of suspected terrorists reportedly plotting assassinations and deadly attacks in America continues to grow, so does the risk of interfering with this year’s presidential election.
Historically, election cycles around the world have often faced disruption by adversaries, whether through election interference, threats of violence or actual violence. For example, the commuter train bombings in Spain on March 11, 2004, carried out by Islamic terrorists, which killed 193 people and injured over 1,800, took place just three days prior to a national election. The coordinated attack is believed by many to have influenced voters to reject a Spanish government that participated in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
For Middle East expert and terrorism scholar Adrian Calamel, attacks like the one in Madrid have him growing increasingly fearful about similar violence being used to disrupt November’s presidential election in the U.S.
Calamel, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Arabian Peninsula Institute, tells WND the “specter of something like this happening in America” is related to an active assassination plot against several Trump-era officials. Earlier this month, news began to circulate that an agent of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, or MOIS, was “wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States, to include lethal targeting of current and former United States Government officials as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani.”
In 2020, Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike on the order of then-President Donald Trump. As a result, Iran pledged to retaliate and named multiple American targets, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser John Bolton, former U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook, as well as other current and former officials of the U.S. government. (Read more from “Terror Expert: Look Who May Try to Disrupt November Election” HERE)
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