Saturday, January 11, 2014

Syria: US Muslims being trained for Jihad

NOT news to some of us, but from JihadWatch comes this reminder of home-grown terrorism threats:

Syria: Jihadis training U.S. Muslims to carry out jihad attacks when they return home

Don't expect U.S. "moderates" to help identifying and stopping these jihadis. When asked what he thought about the participation of U.S. Muslims in the Kenya mall jihad massacre, Hamas-linked CAIR's Ibrahim "Honest Ibe" Hooper replied, "Who cares?"

"Syria Militants Said to Recruit Visiting Americans to Attack U.S.," by Michael S. Schmidt and Eric Schmitt for the New York Times, January 9 

WASHINGTON — Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to Al Qaeda are trying to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home, according to senior American intelligence and counterterrorism officials. 

These efforts, which the officials say are in the early stages, are the latest challenge that the conflict in Syria has created, not just for Europe but for the United States, as the civil war has become a magnet for Westerners seeking to fight with the rebels against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. At least 70 Americans have either traveled to Syria, or tried to, since the civil war started three years ago, according to the intelligence and counterterrorism officials — a figure that has not previously been disclosed.

The director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, said Thursday that tracking Americans who have returned from Syria had become one of the bureau’s highest counterterrorism priorities....



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