A year after the January 6 storming of the United States Capitol, a former US counterterrorism official worries that lone-wolf-style attacks from far-right extremists could pose a major security challenge through 2022, echoing concerns from other analysts about the changing nature of the threat.
More than 700 people have been charged in relation to last year’s Capitol insurrection in Washington, DC, which led to five deaths. The smashed windows and viral images of chaos at the heart of American power forced security services to take the far-right threat more seriously, said Jason Blazakis, a former US Department of State counterterrorism official now with the Soufan Group, a New York-based research centre.
How the US far-right threat has evolved since January 6 | The Far Right News | Al Jazeera
