FBI Busts Alleged ISIS Terror Plot & $10 Million in Daycare Fraud EXPOSED | 9.16.26

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The FBI stops another ISIS-inspired terror plot before it could start, while the Bureau's director comes under fire on Capitol Hill.

Georgia Howe (0:40)

How did ISIS manage to radicalize an American teenager? And how is the Bureau handling domestic threats?

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Federal prosecutors announced a foiled ISIS terror plot on Tuesday, after FBI agents tracked a 21-year-old suspect to a hotel in Cranbury Township, Pennsylvania.

John Bickley (2:30)

This comes as FBI Director Cash Patel appeared before a Senate panel yesterday, where he touted the murder rate falling to a 20-year low, and also fielded some tough questions from lawmakers. Joining us now with more on this is our DC Bureau Chief, Tim Rice. Tim, thanks for coming on.

Tim Rice (2:46)

Thanks for having me, guys.

John Bickley (2:47)

Let's start with this foiled plot the Department of Justice announced yesterday. What other details do we know?

Tim Rice (2:54)

Yeah. As Georgia alluded to, the FBI arrested 21-year-old Jonathan Kramer of Valencia, Pennsylvania on September 12th.

He was nabbed in a Walmart parking lot after somebody in his life tipped off authorities to the fact that he was planning some kind of terror attack in support devices. A couple of things that we know about this based on both the police reports and this guy's posts on the Internet. We know that he was, as far as we can tell, and as far as he said, unaffiliated. He said in some of these weird pro-ISIS forums basically that he was a lone wolf. He wasn't with an ISIS cell. He didn't have anyone giving him instructions. He just wanted to make some sort of attack and hurt a lot of people in the name of this group. And according to police reports, he has been stockpiling ammo. He apparently had 190 rounds of ammunition for this gun that he was planning to use. So, pretty shocking again. A young American kid, radicalized somehow by ISIS.

We don't have a ton more information about these sketchy sites that he was on, but I suspect that in the coming days, we'll hear more and more about what these forums are, how this guy got radicalized, what his story was, basically what brought him to this very radical point.

Georgia Howe (4:03)

Is this young man part of a broader trend when it comes to these kinds of ISIS-inspired domestic threats?

Tim Rice (4:10)

Yeah, it's certainly starting to seem that way. So back in August, a woman from Albany, New York, a 35-year-old woman named Jessica Bowie, was arrested for plotting to blow up the New York state capital before fleeing to ISIS in Syria. And again, these are things that we know because she was posting about them on the internet. So she was caught, I mean, again, this is an American woman. She was in a full burka and face covering. And the reason we know that is because, again, much like with Jonathan Kramer, there were someone had tipped off authorities. So she was under surveillance. Kramer was under surveillance since March. There certainly does seem to be this spread of radicalism. Another point on this, this is slightly less homegrown, but worth noting. On September 11th, the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court, which is a body that was created about a decade ago, but has never actually been used, in response to a petition filed by Attorney General Todd Blanch, made its first ever deportation. It was a 47-year-old Afghan woman named Nizira Hajizadeh. She was living in Fort Worth, Texas. Both her son and son-in-law are currently serving time for a planned, again, ISIS-inspired attack that they planned to launch on election day in 2024