House Homeland Security Committee releases monthly terror-activity report

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) has released the committee’s monthly Terror Threat Snapshot for September, showing an uptick in jihadist terrorist activity in the U.S.

The Homeland Security Committee provides these monthly updates on potential threats to the U.S. from ISIS and other Islamist terrorist groups.

Though the assessment is known as the Terror Threat Snapshot, the detailed monthly report only discusses Islamist terrorism and includes no information on domestic terror threats.

“The Islamist terror threat in the U.S. homeland has escalated dramatically this year and remains high,” McCaul said. “Last month, ISIS supporters published a ‘hit-list’ targeting American government personnel, including our brave men and women in uniform. Authorities also arrested another ISIS-aligned radical in Arizona who helped a fighter travel to Syria for military training – stark reminders of the threats we face.”

The report said jihadist threats in the U.S. have escalated this year as ISIS inspires extremists to take up the fight. The year has seen more U.S.-based jihadist terror cases than any full year since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.