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FBI warns about Americans joining Islamic fighters in Syria
Christian Science Monitor/AP ^ | Emery P. Dalesio

Posted on 11/30/2013 8:56:15 PM PST by Innovative

By one estimate, two dozen Americans may be fighting with Al Qaeda-linked groups against the Syrian government. FBI officials worry they may become radicalized and carry out attacks in the US.

This year, at least three Americans have been charged with planning to fight beside Jabhat al-Nusrah — a radical Islamic organization that the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist group — against Assad. The most recent case involves a Pakistan-born North Carolina man arrested on his way to Lebanon.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; syria; terrorism; threatmatrix; wot
Surprise, surprise...
1 posted on 11/30/2013 8:56:15 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Does that include 0bama or did he chicken out just in time?


2 posted on 11/30/2013 9:11:15 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Innovative

They are not Americans. I don’t care what their passport says.


3 posted on 11/30/2013 9:36:55 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Innovative

islamists belong dead. Their credo says so.


4 posted on 11/30/2013 9:40:37 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Innovative; All
DEAR FBI,

Thanks for the warning.

And by the way......


5 posted on 11/30/2013 11:00:15 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Innovative
THIS 'American' has been supplying weapons to AL QAEDA in Syria (along with Obamatollah).


6 posted on 11/30/2013 11:01:27 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Innovative

“FBI officials worry they may become radicalized....”

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Have they not already become radicalized?


7 posted on 11/30/2013 11:03:32 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG
“FBI officials worry they may become radicalized....” . Have they not already become radicalized?

More likely they worry that they may give themselves to Christ and become "truly radicalized"...

8 posted on 12/01/2013 5:14:13 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Innovative

Some wit should call them the “Abraham Lincoln Brigade”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Brigade

(During and after the Spanish Civil War, members of the brigade were generally viewed as communists.)


9 posted on 12/01/2013 6:45:51 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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