CX - Terrorism

Scripted:
ISIS-K is sneaking through the southern border, and the threat is uniquely
high right now.
Campbell 24:
8 Tajik nationals entered at the US southern border. Intelligence collected
on ISIS targets connected the men to the group. conditions put the risk of a
terror attack at its highest level the US faces a serious threat of a terrorist
attack in the months aheadIt comes from our southern border in months.
Allison 24:
terrorists rise to gaps at the southern border, The US faces a serious
terrorist attack in the months ahexxad. foreign terrorists trying to get into
the US have the ability to exploit our southwest border.
AFF has solvency
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tech for surveillance drones and (CCTV) is effective to observe terrorist
activity, facial recognition at border crossings, fingerprint iris scanners:
verify identities and follow terrorists who have been identified.

The impact of not deploying border surveillance is mass terror attacks on

the homeland.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 23:

The official death toll (9/11), after numerous revisions and not including the 19 terrorists,
was set at 2,977 people.

Moreover a terror attack would likely have many global repercussions.

Wilson 21:
The United States’ response to the 9-11 attack, namely the invasion of Afghanistan, had a
deeply destabilizing impact on the Middle East and North Africa

The bigger impact is increased tensions and war. And the quantification of war is almost
unimaginable.

Batemen 22:
The American war in Afghanistan incurred staggering costs. The U.S. government spent
$2.3 trillion.
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‌The overall quantification of death is roughly 309,000 people.
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ISIS-K is sneaking through the southern border, and the threat is uniquely high
right now.
Campbell 24:
(Katie Bo Lillis, Katie Bo Lillis is a CNN reporter covering intelligence and national security, including all related
federal agencies and Congressional committees. Josh Campbell, Josh Campbell is an award-winning CNN
correspondent covering national security, guns, and law enforcement. CNN, 6-14-2024, "‘ISIS isn’t done with us’:
Arrested Tajiks highlight US fears of terror attack on US", https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/politics/isis-us-fears-
terror-attack/index.html ) / rh
The recent arrest of eight Tajik nationals believed to have connections to ISIS has heightened
concerns among national security officials that a dangerous affiliate of the now-splintered terror
group could potentially carry out an attack on US soil, according to multiple US officials who spoke to CNN.
Members of the group initially entered the US at the southern border and requested asylum
under US immigration law. It’s unclear whether they entered at the same time and place. By the time intelligence
collected on overseas ISIS targets connected the men to the terror group, they had
already been vetted by immigration authorities and allowed into the country, officials said. Though there is no hard evidence
indicating they were sent to the US as part of a terror plot, at least some of the Tajik nationals had expressed extremist

rhetoric in their communications, either on social media or in direct private communications that US intelligence was
able to monitor, three officials said. That discovery set off a flurry of emergency investigative efforts by
federal agents and analysts across the country, sources said, including physical and electronic surveillance
of the men — a counterterrorism operation reminiscent of the years immediately following 9/11, when the FBI investigated
numerous homegrown plots. After a period of surveillance, federal officials in recent days faced a
difficult decision: whether to continue surveilling the men in order to determine if they were part of any potential
plot or wider terrorist network, or to move in and take them off the street. Rather than risk the worst-case scenario of a potential
attack, senior US officials decided to move in and have the men apprehended by ICE agents, one source told CNN. The men
remain in federal custody on immigration charges and will eventually be deported following the counterterror investigation into them.
Tajiks recruited by ISIS Of particular concern to US officials was that the men hail from Tajikistan, a corner of Central Asia that in
recent years has been a source of steady recruitment by ISIS-K, the Afghanistan-based affiliate of the Islamic terrorist group. ISIS-
K is led primarily by Tajiks, who have carried out a series of recent attacks in Europe on
behalf of the group, including the Crocus Hall attack in Moscow in March that killed more than
100 people. National security officials fear that at least some of the eight Tajiks were ripe for radicalization by ISIS-K while they
were inside the United States, potentially struggling with isolation, financial stress or discrimination — all things that could make a
person susceptible to ISIS propaganda glorifying violence. Senior officials now see a so-called “lone-wolf”
attacker who emerges seemingly from nowhere as perhaps the more likely — and potentially
equally dangerous — threat, rather than the more traditional coordinated plot carried out by
trained operatives. “We can’t assume it’s not all of the above,” said one senior US official. “We’re too early to know everything we want to
know about the depth and texture of the links that might be there” between these eight people and ISIS. The episode comes as senior intelligence
global conditions have put the risk of a terror attack on US soil at
officials have been publicly warning that

its highest level in recent memory — at the same time that many national security officials also acknowledge that
American drawdowns in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East have reduced
intelligence-gathering on traditional terrorism threats. “It’s no secret that since our drawdowns in
various places around the world, we collect less intelligence. This was always a tradeoff we knew we
were making,” the senior US official said. Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell this week co-wrote a
widely circulated piece in Foreign Affairs warning that terrorism warning lights are “blinking red,”
echoing a recent warning by FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said he sees “blinking lights everywhere I turn. ” “The
combination of stated intentions of terrorist groups, growing capabilities they have
demonstrated in recent successful and failed attacks around the world, and the fact that several
serious plots in the United States have been foiled, point us to an uncomfortable but
unavoidable conclusion,” the Foreign Affairs piece read. “Put simply, the United States
fac[ing]es a serious threat of a terrorist attack in the months ahead.” Gaps in intelligence collection
Intelligence officials are keenly aware of gaps in intelligence collection in Afghanistan, where ISIS-K is primarily based. While
officials believe that ISIS-K mainly tries to radicalize and inspire attackers rather than train and field operatives, the group’s rise to
prominence is a relatively new phenomenon. That means that there is much that US counterterrorism analysts don’t know about its
strategy, recruitment efforts and operational tactics.
It comes from our southern border in months.
Allison 24:
(Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University, Michael J. Morell, Senior Counselor
and Global Head of Geostrategic Risk at Beacon Global Strategy. He was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, 21 June 2024, “The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again: Echoes of the Run-Up to 9/11”,
Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/terrorism-warning-lights-are-blinking-red-again ) / rh
Testifying in December to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Wray said, “When I sat here last year, I walked through
“we’ve seen the
how we were already in a heightened threat environment.” Yet after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7,
threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole another level,” he added. In speaking about those
threats, Wray has repeatedly drawn attention to security gaps at the United States’ southern
border, where thousands of people each week enter the country undetected. Wray is not the only senior official issuing
warnings. In April, he told the House Appropriations Committee that “the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland”
was “increasingly concerning.” The
United States faces a serious threat of a terrorist attack in the
months ahead. Wray has focused on one country as a potential state sponsor of terrorism: Iran. In October, he told the
Senate Homeland Security Committee that Tehran continues to plot against high-ranking “current or former” U.S. government
officials as a means of exacting revenge for the United States’ assassination of senior Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani in
January 2020. Although Iranian plans have failed so far, there is no guarantee that the next one w ill.
The successful killing of a U.S. citizen, especially if it takes place on U.S. soil, would not only strike fear
among the American public but also plunge Tehran and Washington into a crisis on a scale unseen
since the Iranian regime took power in 1979. The FBI director has also highlighted a specific security vulnerability. In December,
Wray warned the Senate Judiciary Committee that foreign terrorists trying to get into the United States
have the “ability to exploit any point of entry, including our southwest border.” In March, he drew
the Senate Intelligence Committee’s attention to “a particular network [operating on the southern border].” He
told the committee that this smuggling network has overseas facilitators with “ISIS ties that we are very
concerned about.”

AFF has solvency

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(Dr. Aftab Ahmad Malik, Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Lahore Garrison University, Dr.
Waqar Azeem an internationally recognized academician and health care leader with Sidra Medicine and Weill
Cornell Medical College, and Dr. Mujtaba Asad, Assistant Professor and Lead Researcher of Technologies 2023
International Journal forElectronic Crime Investigation“The Modern Electronic and other Technologies to Combat
New Wave of Terrorism and Criminal Activities”, International Journal for Electronic Crime Investigation, 7(3), 8.
[https://doi.org/10.54692/ijeci.2023.0703156 ) / Zayn
In this Section, we highlight a few methods from Table1, which are effective for detection and control of terrorism. The
technology for surveillance and reconnaissance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones is
effective. The drones are used for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and monitoring in remote
places to look for and detect terrorist activities particularly, while using the satellite imaging method. Counter-drone
;

technology has become crucial for security as terrorists utilize drones more frequently for reconnaissance and potentially for attacks.
It is useful to monitor the movements and activities of the terrorists used with high-resolution
satellite imaging as source of intelligence. However, the employment of closed-circuit television
(CCTV) is effective to observe terrorist activity which can be used with the aid of surveillance cameras placed
,

in public areas, transit hubs, and is therefore, is of vital infrastructure value methods based on biometrics . The

facilitate the facial recognition particularly at airports, border crossings, and other high-
security places people can be recognized using facial recognition technology The identification of criminal
, .

and terrorists is carried out using fingerprint and iris scanners These tools are used to verify :

identities and follow terrorists who have been identified The algorithms of artificial intelligence .

and data analytics are used to analyze information from a variety of sources to spot[s] trends
and potential dangers. The techniques of Big Data Analysis are used to find patterns and linkages within
terrorist networks by analyzing “big datasets”.
The impact of not deploying border surveillance is mass terror attacks on the homeland.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 23:

“How Many People Were Killed in the September 11 Attacks? | Britannica.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 2024,
www.britannica.com/question/How-many-people-were-killed-in-the-September-11-attacks. Accessed 7 Aug. 2024.
The exact number of victims—particularly the number of those killed at the World Trade Center—is not definitively known. However,
the official death toll (9/11), after numerous revisions and not including the 19 terrorists,
was set at 2,977 people. At the World Trade Center in New York City, 2,753 people died, of whom 343 were firefighters.
The death toll at the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., was 184, and 40 individuals died outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Moreover a terror attack would likely have many global repercussions. Wilson 21:
“The Global Impact of 9/11: Twenty Years On.” Wilson Center, 2024, www.wilsoncenter.org/event/global-impact-911-twenty-years#:~:text=Event
%20Summary,of%20anti%2DAmericanism%20across%20MENA. Accessed 19 Sept. 2024.
The United States’ response to the 9-11 attack, namely the invasion of Afghanistan, had a
deeply destabilizing impact on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In addition to ushering in war and
instability, U.S. post-war policies sparked a strong wave of anti-Americanism across MENA. The Taliban’s quick takeover sent shockwaves across the globe, and a clear
message: the War on Terror is far from over.

The bigger impact is increased tensions and war. Batemen 22:

“In Afghanistan, Was a Loss Better than Peace?” United States Institute of Peace, 3 Nov. 2022,
www.usip.org/publications/2022/11/afghanistan-was-loss-better-peace. Accessed 19 Sept. 2024.
The American war in Afghanistan incurred staggering costs — for the United States, Afghans and
others — over two decades. The U.S. government spent $2.3 trillion, and the war led to the deaths
of 2,324 U.S. military personnel, 3,917 U.S. contractors and 1,144 allied troops. For
Afghans, the statistics are nearly unimaginable: 70,000 Afghan military and police deaths, 46,319 Afghan
civilians (although that is likely a significant underestimation) and some 53,000 opposition fighters killed. Almost
67,000 other people were killed in Pakistan in relation to the Afghan war.
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‌The overall quantification of death is roughly 309,000 people.

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