First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack
Broad implications for the United States from the first accused Islamic terrorist to illegally cross the southern border and shoot an American for jihad
By Todd Bensman on January 6, 2025
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Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi
“I can tell you the threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming FBI field offices, not just in border states.” – FBI Director Christopher Wray, November 2023 testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee
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CHICAGO, Illinois – Since October 26, 2024, was Saturday, the mandatory Jewish day of rest when the orthodox may not drive, the orthodox Jewish man woke early to walk the mile to his suburban Chicago synagogue.
But his wife and children decided to stay home, a rare exception, while he went alone to weekly morning service at KINS of West Rogers Park synagogue, the second largest synagogue in Chicago. Their choice may have been divine providence for them all, he and his wife later recounted to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in late December.
Wearing religious garb – a yarmulke for his head and a clear plastic prayer shawl bag over a shoulder - that readily identified him as a Jew, the 39-year-old man headed out on the 20-minute walk through West Rogers Park, his predominantly Jewish upper-middle class suburban neighborhood where crime of any sort is virtually unknown.
He recalls “just walking, like spacing out,” nodding good morning to other walkers. Suddenly, a noise that sounded like a lightning bolt strike yanked him from the reverie.
https://cis.org/Report/First-Blood-Anatomy-BorderCrossers-Chicago-Terror-Attack
