FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser

Nearly seven months have elapsed since an illegal immigrant from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania shot and wounded a visibly Orthodox Jewish man in the Chicago terror attack on October 26, then engaged police in a furious firefight while screaming the terrorist war cry “Allahu Akbar.”It was the first known – and formally charged – terror attack on US soil by a foreign national who illegally crossed the southern border.In a highly unusual move, the FBI under President Joe Biden didn’t seem to much care about the Chicago attack, ceding the public facing investigation to local police and the prosecution to Illinois officials, who used the state’s never-used 9/11-era state anti-terrorism statute to charge Mauritanian national Sidi Abdallahi, 22, with terrorism.The extraordinary stand-down by the nation’s chief counterterrorism law enforcement agency, just days before a national presidential election, veered sharply from norms, especially since Abdallahi’s recovered cell phone revealed an intense interest in jihadist ideology, extreme antisemitism, and resentment against Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.But before any FBI investigative role might have publicly emerged, Abdallahi hanged himself in Cook County jail, also ending chances for public understanding about what government border security agencies knew of his movements prior to the attack and what the FBI may have learned about him afterward. But now, in response to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI acknowledged that it did indeed open an investigation into the nation’s inaugural border-crossing terror attack and, more pertinently, that the investigation is still ongoing seven months after its sole defendant hanged himself.“The records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information could reasonably be exp...