There’s One Thing All The Latest Terrorist Attacks In US Have In Common

There’s a common denominator among the men accused of committing various terrorist attacks in recent weeks: All were naturalized U.S. citizens or the children of naturalized U.S. citizens.

Ndiaga Diagne, 53, was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims Diagne perpetrated the March 1 terror attack in Austin, Texas, in which a gunman killed three people and wounded 15 others. (RELATED: ROOKE: Austin Terror Attack Exposes US Legal Pathway To Bloodshed) 

The gunman was “wearing clothing that had the words ‘Property of Allah’ on it and was possibly wearing an undershirt/T-shirt that had an Iranian flag or Iranian representations on it,” according to Fox News’ Bill Melugin. The gunman committed the attack one day after U.S. military strikes on Iran.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Caller that Diagne “entered the U.S on March 13, 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa. In June 2006, he adjusted to lawful permanent resident (IR-6) based on marriage to a U.S. citizen. He naturalized as a U.S. citizen on April 5, 2013 under the Obama administration. In 2022, he was arrested in Texas for a collision with vehicle damage.”

BREAKING: @FoxNews has obtained a photo of the Austin, TX mass shooter, armed & wearing a sweater that says “Property of Allah”. He has not been identified by authorities, but multiple federal law enforcement sources tell FOX he is a 53-year-old naturalized US citizen who was… pic.twitter.com/YjyT8sIuBr

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 1, 2026

“Obviously it’s still way too early in the process to determine an exact motivation,” FBI acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran said to KVUE ABC. “But there were indicators that on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism.”

Two men are accused of tossing bombs into a crowd of protesters outside the New York City mayor’s home March 7. Those men are Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19. Both are U.S. citizens from Pennsylvania. 

Balat and Kayumi are suspected of targeting Jake Lang, a right-wing protester demonstrating outside Gracie Mansion that day, according to The New York Times. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that the men “were acting in support of ISIS.” 

“This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet … We take action! We take action!”; and “if I didn’t do it someone else will come and do it,” Balat told New York Police Department (NYPD) officers, according to the DOJ.

Balat asked for a piece of paper at the NYPD precinct. After being provided with paper and pen, he wrote: “All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.” 

“Kuffar,” the DOJ notes, is an “Arabic term that refers to ‘non-believers’ or ‘infidels.’”

“Die in your rage” is an ISIS slogan. 

Kayumi said he had “watched ISIS propaganda on his phone” and that his actions “were partly inspired by ISIS,” according to authorities. 

NEW: NYPD outlines what terror suspects said about their alleged ISIS inspiration after being arrested for Saturday’s failed attack in New York City.

“Kayumi said in recorded, post arrest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and his actions that day were… pic.twitter.com/gbTMBspL2C

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 9, 2026

Kayumi’s parents own a $2.25 million home in Newtown, Pennsylvania and are naturalized U.S. citizens hailing from Afghanistan, according to the New York Post. Balat’s parents reportedly own a $635,000 home in neighboring Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and are naturalized U.S. citizens originally from Turkey.

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, is accused of gunning down one man and injuring two others at Old Dominion University in Norfolk on Thursday. Jalloh was a U.S. citizen originally from Sierra Leone, according to USA Today.

Jalloh shouted “allahu akbar” during the attack, NBC News reported, citing FBI special agent Dominique Evans. Jalloh was subdued and killed by students, officials announced Thursday. (RELATED: INGERSOLL: Famous (Stupid) Last Words Of A Dead Terrorist) 

Jalloh, a former Army National Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017 and five years supervised release for “attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),” according to a DOJ press release.

The DOJ alleges that Jalloh took a “six-month trip to Africa where he had met with ISIL members in Nigeria and first began communicating online with the ISIL member” and later revealed to an FBI confidential source that he “thought about conducting an attack all the time, and that he was close to doing so at one point.” 

DHS identified Ayman Mohamad Ghazali as the suspect accused of driving an explosives-laden truck into the entrance of a Synagogue in Michigan. (RELATED: Synagogue Attacked By Man In Explosives-Filled Car Hosted FBI Training Weeks Prior) 

Ghazali was “born in Lebanon on January 4, 1985,” a DHS spokesperson told The Hill. “He entered the United States on May 10, 2011 at Detroit Metropolitan International Airport on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen after alien relative and fiancé petitions filed in December 2009 were approved in April 2010.”

“He applied for naturalization on October 20, 2015 and was granted U.S. citizenship on February 5, 2016 under the Obama administration.”

Ghazali reportedly lost family members in an recent Israeli air strike on Lebanon.

As The Heritage Foundation rather succinctly put it, “We have a legal immigration problem.” 

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