Posted on 06/19/2015 6:03:59 AM PDT by Fay
The FBI is in the midst of a broad campaign to disrupt potential terrorists inspired by ISIS, with several arrests expected before July 4th, law enforcement officials told ABC News. The latest arrest that is part of this campaign came Saturday in New York, where a college student thought al Qaeda was getting soft and "making efforts to prepare an explosive device for detonation,” according to the FBI. Hundreds of investigations are underway in all 50 states. Many involve suspected ISIS supporters, authorities said. ISIS: Trail of Terror In the New York case, Munther Omar Saleh was accused of being an alleged “fervent supporter” of ISIS and offering to translate the terror group's propaganda into English. Court records quoted a tweet that read: “I fear AQ could be getting too moderate.” Saleh had been under FBI surveillance since March when a Port Authority police officer saw him walking with a lantern on the George Washington Bridge, according to court records. The FBI said Saleh told a confidential informant he was “in N.Y. and trying to do an Op.” Instructions for a pressure cooker bomb were found on his computer along with images of New York City landmarks and tourist attractions, what court records called “potential targets for a terrorist attack.” Saleh allegedly expressed support for the attack on the offices of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo and the attempted attack on the Draw the Prophet cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. In roughly a month since two suspected ISIS supporters were killed in that attack, authorities have made at least five arrests of suspected ISIS supporters as part of what law enforcement officials tell ABC News is a broad campaign to disrupt potential terrorists encouraged by ISIS through social media.
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The FBI, huhh...we’re SCREWED!
Ha haaaaa!!! Satan divided against himself? Riiiiiiiiight.
I think the FBI may have tweeted those very scary words...blah...blah...blah...
I wouldn't be surprised if part of 0bama's "plan" was to re-settle them in the US.
Oh, brother. How screwed up is that. Our objective now is to “disrupt ISIS”. Wow.
How did ISIS get here in the first place?
With Obama's plans to resettle 70,000 Syrian "refugees" all over the US without proper screening, you can bet that there will be ISIS terrorists and sympathizers among them.
sounds more like a job for the IRS
What are they going to do? Drain all the ponds?
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