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Alleged ISIS video threatens Washington D.C. with Paris-like attacks

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In a new video, ISIS is now making threats against the United States.

It did not take ISIS long to say where its sights are set next, following the devastating terror attacks in Paris.

Three days after hitting the French Capital, the terror group says it plans to strike in Washington, D.C.

The threat comes in a video that has not yet been authenticated, but it specifically references Friday night's massacre that claimed more than 130 lives. 

Speaking in Arabic, an armed fighter looks into the camera saying: "We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by god, you will have a day, god willing, like France's and by god, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington."

In Washington, there are no visible signs that security is any tighter than it would otherwise be.

U.S. Capitol police confirms that, since Friday, they've beefed up patrols out of an abundance of caution, even though there has been no specific threat made to the Capitol building.