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40 Islamic State jihadis have already returned to the U.S.

Sep 19, 2014 10:10 am By Robert Spencer

Mideast Iraq Behind Militant LinesThese jihadis have already effectively renounced their U.S. citizenship by joining up with the Islamic State. They have aligned themselves with an entity that considers itself to be at war with the United States, and have vowed to destroy it. They should not have been let back into the country, much less trusted to the surveillance of the politically correct and willfully ignorant FBI.

“Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, September 19, 2014 9:35 am

Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S. citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States, where they could pose a terrorist threat.

Bishop claims that of the 100 or so Americans who have traveled to the Middle East to join ISIL’s ranks, some 40 have returned and are currently being surveilled by the FBI, according to his remarks, which were filmed and uploaded to YouTube last week.

“One of the concerns is the number of U.S. citizens who have left our country to go join up with ISIS,” Bishop said during the speech. “It is believed there have been some number up to 100 that have done that.”

“It is also believed that some 40 of those who left this country to join up with ISIS have now returned to our country,” Bishop said, eliciting shocked responses from some in the crowd.

These 40 individuals, Bishop said, “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”

Lawmakers have warned that radicalized ISIL fighters could clandestinely enter the United States through the porous southern border.

U.S. officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other security agencies have said that while the southern border poses a risk, they are more concerned about lone wolf attacks in which an isolated radicalized individual with sympathy to ISIL carries out a solo terror attack.

Bishop said that while ISIL poses and extreme threat, it is not yet capable of attacking the United States, though that could change as the group grows in strength and resources.

“It is a very, very complex and very, very dangerous threat and I think the plan that the president outlined the other night [in his national speech] is a good plan,” Bishop maintained.

President Obama “is correct to recognize the threat, and it clearly is a threat to the stability of the Middle East, a region that is already remarkably unstable,” Bishop said.

“It is not yet a threat to the homeland, but there is a concern that it could metastasize in such a way that it could become a threat to the homeland,” Bishop said, echoing concerns expressed by lawmakers on both sides of the isle.

“But at the present time, the intelligence is ISIS does not present a threat to the homeland, although that is not something that will remain static going out into the future,” Bishop said, describing the regional upheaval as “more of a political conflict in the Arab world then a sectarian conflict” between Muslims.

DHS has said that while there is no evidence of a direct threat by ISIL to the United States, it is aware that the group’s affiliates have been discussing the possibility of crossing the southern border.

“There have been Twitter, social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,” Francis Taylor, under secretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, told senators during a recent hearing.

Other U.S. officials also have discussed the possibility of an ISIL adherent carrying out an attack on the United States.

“We remain mindful of the possibility that an ISIL-sympathizer—perhaps motivated by online propaganda—could conduct a limited, self-directed attack here at home with no warning,” Matthew Olsen, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, said in a speech earlier this month.

“We have seen ISIL use a range of media to tout its military capabilities, executions of captured soldiers, and consecutive battlefield victories,” Olsen said. “More recently, the group’s supporters have sustained this momentum on social media by encouraging attacks in the U.S. and against U.S. interests in retaliation for our airstrikes. ISIL has used this propaganda campaign to draw foreign fighters to the group, including many from Western countries.”

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  1. Angemon says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 10:38 am

    These jihadis have already effectively renounced their U.S. citizenship by joining up with the Islamic State. They have aligned themselves with an entity that considers itself to be at war with the United States, and have vowed to destroy it.

    Pretty much how I see it too. If that’s not enough to strip them of their citizenship at the very least it should be enough to have them judged for treason.

    “It is also believed that some 40 of those who left this country to join up with ISIS have now returned to our country,” Bishop said, eliciting shocked responses from some in the crowd.

    These 40 individuals, Bishop said, “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”

    At least until CAIR demands said surveillance to stop…

  2. David says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 11:13 am

    This is interesting. The Anglican Dean of Sydney blames Islam for the rise of the Islamic State.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fanglican-dean-blames-islam-for-rise-of-islamic-state-20140918-10iu1v.html&ei=O0YcVOacOdjf8AXE0IKQCg&usg=AFQjCNECWlX8dMX4d-Q9h-igWutmY-0dRw&sig2=4eoX2d-r6lOydshCd9ADpw

  3. Undaunted says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 11:20 am

    The dirt-bags Islam needs to pull off another 9-11-01 or Beslan or Mumbai or Nairobi here in the US don’t need to be IS alumni and are, in fact, already here… many many thousands of them.

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2014/06/i-kid-you-not-about-the-mom-and-pop-home-schoolers-being-considered-a-more-probable-threat-than-terrorists-in-the-neck-of.html

  4. Don McKellar says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 11:28 am

    How much longer is left in Obama’s disasterously miscalculated White House love affair with Islam? http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=263&iso=20170120T00&msg=Time%20left%20until%20Obama%20leaves%20office

    It is mind-blowing how much destruction and pain and suffering his stupidity has caused overseas with one fiasco after another with the now infamous Cairo Speech started off the Arab Spring and left all those countries with years of interal civil wars as the Jihad forces seize their chance to impose sharia. In every single decision he has backed the WRONG people and thousands have paid dearly for it and are still paying for it. And now the vinegar-wine of the Arab Spring has been distilled into the pure evil of ISIS. And freshly trained and battle-hardened ISIS jihadists are now back in the USA, ready to strike!

    Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy 853 days!

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    It’s an injustice to the law-abiding citizens to have their country FILLED WITH TERRORISTS!

    There is no excuse for the US government to allow them re-entry. PERMANENT EXILE is the ONLY WAY that will work with jihad terrorists.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    With the information in this above article it’s thus fitting to reiterate,once again, that be the threat by terrorist Muslims, be they of ISIS or Al Qaeda or some other like minded Islamic terror jihad group in the vicious and malice filled hate for America and human lives that we ,as America should not live in fear or be afraid to go different places or do different thing if theses fiends of the jihad. We all need to keep on moving on with our own lives and not live in fear. For to live in fear would make the enemy happy. Still, even though it’s very important that we not live in fear we still should keep a balanced view on things and be aware of our surrounding and be on the look out for thing that seem not to look quite right. As in “What ‘s wrong with this picture?” Then tell the right person about it if something odd is seem. For example, that Tee-shirt vendor a Times Square at NY,NY who saw some smoke come out of that parked van and then told a police officer about it. As it has been said “If you see something , say something.”
    Thomas Jefferson said it well when he stated “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.’

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 7:11 pm

    40 Islamic State jihadis have already returned to the U.S.

    These jihadis have already effectively renounced their U.S. citizenship by joining up with the Islamic State.
    …………………………..

    I *absolutely agree*. Strip these traitorous Jihadists of their citizenship.

  8. Bezelel says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    Is traitor still in the dictionary?

    • Betty says

      Sep 20, 2014 at 8:10 pm

      yes it is in mine. but that don’t mean squat when it comes to the little o. he will make up his own meaning for the word.

  9. Mo says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Dear God, they KNOW these murderous savages are back here? Why were they allowed even to reenter the country?!

  10. Pavelina says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    “they pose a terrorist threat” — for heaven’s sake! They should be arrested and convicted of treason! They served in an army that vows to kill
    Americans and attack the U.S.! They are traitors.

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