Video urges terrorist attack on Las Vegas Strip. Authorities are taking it seriously

Law enforcement is ramping up patrols and surveillance heading into the long holiday weekend after Las Vegas was cited as a terrorism target in a video circulated in ISIS online channels.

Las Vegas authorities said the propaganda video is a legitimate Islamic State product and a credible threat, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. While showing brief footage of the Las Vegas Strip, an English-speaking narrator calls for lone-wolf terrorist attacks.

“It would be irresponsible not to take any threat as credible, especially when made by a group such as ISIS, who has in fact carried out attacks in the past,” said Christopher Darcy, captain of Vegas’ Metropolitan Police Department and head of the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center.

The 44-minute video also showed New York’s Times Square.

This story was originally published May 26, 2017 at 11:39 AM with the headline "Video urges terrorist attack on Las Vegas Strip. Authorities are taking it seriously."