Potential ISIS Retaliation, Holiday Season Be on Guard

In the run-up to and during the holidays, ISIS supporters churning out much of the group’s calls to action have promoted Christmas market attacks in Germany (2016) and France (2018) as well as the 2015 attack on a county employees’ holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif. Everitt Aaron Jameson, a Modesto, Calif., tow-truck driver, pleaded guilty last year to planning a Christmas-season attack on San Francisco’s Pier 39; he had “liked” on Facebook an ISIS propaganda image depicting Santa with a box of dynamite in New York’s Times Square.

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