In December, the FBI shut down four attacks in 30 days, director Kash Patel said. The attacks were aimed at places of worship, schools, and businesses.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation stopped 715 planned terror attacks on U.S. soil last year, Director Kash Patel said.
In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times’ senior editor Jan Jekielek that will air on Aug. 8, Patel shared the formerly unreported number of frustrated attacks and details from some of those takedowns that came from ISIS and other terrorist-affiliated organizations.
“In December of last year, the FBI shut down four terrorist attacks in 30 days,” he said. “That’s a pretty monumental achievement, especially during the holidays, but it’s because we were resourced and backed by the White House and the administration to get these sorts of achievements.”
Patel said that those four attacks were set to happen in Southern California, Texas, Florida, and New York, Patel said.
The would-be perpetrators in those unrelated instances all planned to hit places of worship, schools, businesses, or “Americans wherever they could.”
“Before these individuals, who wanted to disrupt America’s holidays last year, literally, and kill dozens, if not hundreds, of people, and cause a mass casualty event, we went in and took them all down,” Patel said.
Every terrorist attack stopped is a family that gets to go home.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 5, 2026
This FBI disrupted 715 planned terrorist attacks in the last year alone. In just 30 days, we stopped 4 more targeting communities in California, Texas, Florida, and New York before innocent Americans could be… pic.twitter.com/qBBbO3HRUw
Though the attackers and plans were different, the only similarity among the four separate operations was the fact that each had the same goal, the FBI director said: to target and kill Americans.
Adversaries are continuously looking to attack on American soil, using illegal immigrants, sympathetic U.S. citizens, and foreign nationals, he said, adding that FBI agents must practice the perfect mix of patience and action.
“We want to go out at the right time to dismantle the entire criminal enterprise, not just a couple of them,” Patel said. “So it’s a balance.”
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