VNExpress-June 22
The armed group that attacked two government headquarters in Dak Lak Province earlier this month has connections with terrorists based in the U.S., the homeland security department says. Major General Pham Ngoc Viet, head of the Department of Homeland Security at the Ministry of Public Security, said on Tuesday that one of the suspects involved in the attacks on the People’s Committee offices of Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur communes is a member of a terrorist organization based in the U.S. This person was instructed to infiltrate Vietnam and plan the attack, Viet told the United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States in New York. Viet said the attacks on June 11, which resulted in nine deaths, two injuries and three hostages, were “organized terrorism.”
Vietnam has never experienced international terrorism before, but certain risk factors do threaten national security here, he said. Groups are making use of technologies and social media to spread their extreme ideologies across the globe, making Vietnam highly susceptible due to the country’s high number of Internet users. Vietnam calls for relevant countries and international organizations to support and cooperate with the country’s investigation into the acts of terrorism. Read more at: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/armed-group-committing-dak-lak-attacks-have-connections-with-us-based-terrorists-4620658.html
