You might think either of these to be the case, given how little the media—particularly the U.S. media—seems to make of it anymore. Arrests of terror cells, the disruptions of plans of attack, shootings and stabbings, particularly in Europe, all go little reported and are frequently entirely ignored these days by the U.S. press.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t happening or that the threat is anywhere near over. As Christine Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, D.C., told the Washington Institute in January, “Despite significant progress in diminishing the terrorist threat to the United States, the country continues to face a diversified, transnational and in many ways unpredictable threat environment both at home and abroad.
