Posted on 12/01/2015 9:14:56 AM PST by Theoria
American authorities this year have arrested nearly five dozen people in the United States for helping to support or plot with the Islamic State, according to a new study, the largest number of terrorism-related arrests in the country in a single year since September 2001.
The Islamic State recruits defy any single profile, the study found, although they are younger than previous terrorism suspects, draw heavily on converts to Islam, and reflect increasingly prominent roles for women in the terrorist organization.
A demographic snapshot of the 71 individuals arrested on charges related to the Islamic State since March 2014, including 56 this year, emerged from a comprehensive review of social media accounts and legal documents of nearly 400 American sympathizers of the Islamic State conducted by researchers at George Washington University.
The volume and diversity of those arrested underscore the growing challenge the F.B.I. and local law enforcement agencies face in trying to identify, monitor and, if necessary, apprehend suspects at a time when the Islamic State has sharply increased its appeal to Westerners through Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
“The individuals range from hardened militants to teenage girls, petty criminals and college students,†said Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the university’s program on extremism, which conducted the study. “The diversity is staggering.â€
The report, titled “ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa,†was made public on Tuesday.
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71 out of 300,000,000 ain’t that many.
The article doesn’t say what happened to them nor where they are.
Right, then there's nothing to worry about!
Now can we get back to the REAL THREAT -- climate change? /s
Liberals, knowing very well that some M & M’s are poisoned, would eat them all just to show how diverse and caring they are.
Tell me again, how many hijackers were there on 9/11?
Home-Grown or Refujihadis ?
That is true. Illegal aliens have caused more harm to Americans domestically than such persons.
Both.
Worse, they would try to force everyone else to eat them, complaining all the while of the people who refuse to eat them and calling them cowardly.
Too bad their is a different set of laws for The People, and the oligarchs, or a lot of R’s and D’s would be doin time off a short rope!
No. Liberals would have someone else eat them to show how caring they are. Someone else always pays.
I heard they are hiding out on the tarmacs of our major airports. They have figured out that the vaunted TSA will never find them there. Hell the TSA can’t find anything but suspicious Grandmas and three year olds anything dangerous is overlooked.
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