GOP Senators raise concerns about ISIS attacks against Americans after Moscow shooting

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday targeted Americans after ISIS killed more than 130 people at a Moscow concert hall on Saturday. He said he was deeply concerned about ISIS terrorist attacks.

Both senators mocked President Biden’s foreign policy following the attack. The suspected ISIS-K group was the same group that killed 14 American soldiers and more than 170 Afghans in a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2021 as U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan.

“It is very unfortunate that innocent civilians, women and children were killed in Moscow, but the next attack could be on a U.S. embassy in Asia or Europe, or on students traveling to Europe on a spring break field trip. “There is a sexual nature,” Cotton warned. Interview on “Fox News Sunday”. “Again, this is a very dangerous reflection of President Biden’s failure to withdraw from Afghanistan.”

Cotton, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, added that he was “very concerned” about the possibility of ISIS attacking Americans, calling the risk a “grave danger.”

Rubio also linked the attack to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding that there is a potential threat of future terrorism on U.S. soil.

“[ISIS-K] “As we warned during this disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, we have rebuilt ourselves,” Rubio said in an interview on “This Week” with ABC’s John Karl. “One of the reasons we didn’t want a sudden withdrawal was because you gave them a platform to reorganize and plan externally, and since then they have been working inside Afghanistan. Because they started attacking.”

“They had an attack inside Iran a while ago, and now they have an attack in Russia, and they will do it here at home,” he said.

Mr. Rubio also linked the issue to border security, arguing that cross-border smuggling operations can serve as a means for terrorists to enter the country.

“Common sense suggests that if they are running a human trafficking network, they will almost certainly use it to transport operatives to the United States,” he said. So I’m not saying that there’s an immediate threat to the United States, but I’m saying that the situation at the border and the existence of that network is a threat to the United States. ”

“If we could do what we did in Moscow in the United States, we would do it in a heartbeat,” he added. “They want to do it.”