FBI director Christopher Wray the conflict in Israel had left a highly volatile environment which lent itself to domestic terror.
| Threats of domestic terrorism and “spontaneous violence” in Australia and the US following Hamas’ attack on Israel are “evolving continually”, ASIO boss Mike Burgess and FBI director Christopher Wray warned on Monday , ahead of a top-level intelligence conference in Silicon Valley.
“We don’t discount the possibility that Hamas or other foreign terrorist organisations could exploit the conflict to call on their supporters to conduct attacks here on our soil,” he said. “As we see protests and counter-protests, which happens - and ASIO has no interest in that, that’s awful in our country - but we do anticipate spontaneous violence around there,” he said.
On Monday, he said the threat of terrorism was still “possible”, though the agency did not see any reason to change ist warnings “at this point in time”.
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