Tajik migrants with suspect ISIS ties planned to attack an LGBTQ place, sources say

The group of Tajik migrants with suspected ties to ISIS had been planning an attack on an LGBTQ establishment in Philadelphia and looked to target “infidels” before they were pinched in June, The Post has learned.The eight terror from Tajikistan suspects crossed the southern border, some using the Harris-Biden administration’s CBP One phone app, and federal agents didn’t uncover any information suggesting terrorism ties, sources said.They were nabbed as part of a multi-state sting that spanned New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles — with one of the suspects caught on wiretap talking about bombs, sources previously said.But it later emerged that the group had also planned the attack in the City of Brotherly Love, a Congressional source told The Post, without elaborating.A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement source also said that the group had been discussing targeting “infidels” in the US.It is not clear how the group planned to carry out the attack or its exact location.Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the FBI responded to The Post’s requests for comment.Months before the arrests, FBI Director Chris Wray warned of the possibility that ISIS could be exploiting an open southern border.He had also expressed concerns to lawmakers of the possibility of a “coordinated attack” that could take place on US soil following an ISIS-K attack on a concert hall in Moscow — carried out by citizens of Tajikistan — that killed 145 people and wounded hundreds more.ISIS-K, which stands for Islamic State Khorasan, a region in South Asia, is an offshoot of the Islamic State terror organization.“Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Wray told a House Appropriations subcommittee.“But now, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw a...