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Outgoing FBI chief warns of U.S.-based jihadis bringing jihad home from Syria

Aug 22, 2013 8:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Every threat he discusses in this article emanates from Islamic jihad, the one threat he cannot and will not name. “Outgoing FBI Director Warns of Americans Traveling to Syria and Bringing Terrorist Tactics Home,” by Pierre Thomas, Jack Cloherty and Mike Levine for ABC News, August 22 (thanks to Kenneth):

The outgoing director of the FBI gave a sobering assessment Thursday of the current threats facing the U.S. homeland: A biological weapon of mass destruction detonated inside the country and a plane downed in mid-flight are viable scenarios. Americans now traveling to war-torn Syria could bring terrorist tactics home with them.

Hmmm, and what is likely to be the motivating ideology behind all three of those? That is not something we are allowed to investigate or discuss, on pain of charges of “hatred” and “bigotry.”

Terrorism has “changed so much since the days after Sept. 11th,” director Robert Mueller said in a rare interview with ABC News’ Pierre Thomas.

In particular, Mueller said, the threat emanating out of Afghanistan and Pakistan has now “migrated” to places like Yemen, Libya, Egypt and Syria. In Syria, a near-civil war has reportedly killed more than 1,000 people and is drawing fighters from around the world, including the United States.

“[When] you have individuals traveling to those venues, you are concerned [first] about the associations they will make, and secondly about the expertise they will develop and whether or not they will utilize those associations, utilize that expertise, to undertake an attack upon the homeland,” Mueller said. “So, yes, we are concerned about that, and, yes, we are monitoring it.”

Places like Syria may end up harboring “radical extremists who want to do harm” to the United States, according to Mueller.

In fact, the FBI has increasingly been chasing what turned out to be dubious threat streams tied to the Al Nusrah Front in Syria, according to counterterrorism officials. Just weeks ago, the FBI was notified of intelligence indicating that the Al Nusrah Front would be launching an attack in the nation’s capital during August, but the intelligence and the threat were ultimately deemed to lack credibility.

“The possibility of a plane being taken down … tends to keep us awake at night.”

Next month, Mueller is leaving the FBI after 12 years at its helm. James Comey, a former senior official in the Justice Department, will replace him. Mueller was on the job for about a week when the Sept. 11 hijackers changed the country — and the FBI — forever.

It’s “the possibility of a plane being taken down, and the possibility of a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist or terrorist group who are not afraid to launch it” that “tends to keep us awake at night,” Mueller recounted.

He said days like Sept. 11, 2001, and those with news such as the 2009 Ft. Hood attack, the Benghazi attack last year, and the Boston Marathon bombing in April are some of the most difficult for the FBI.

“Anyone who looked and saw those pictures was horrified at the killing and the devastation,” Mueller said of the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three, including an 8-year-old boy, and injured more than 260 others.

Still, Mueller said “the fact of the matter is” there will be cases in the future like that of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, cases in which the U.S. government has received some negative information about a possible terrorist, but can’t find enough to do anything about it within the letter of the law.

“That is going to happen,” Mueller emphasized….

Of course it is, because the FBI is still forbidden to study anything about jihad, and so its ability correctly to evaluate intelligence about jihadists will only continue to atrophy.

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