Homeland Security: ISIS Not a Threat to the US

Christian Post ^ | 09/15/2014 | Michael Gryboski

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Homeland Security spokesman Francis Taylor said in a Senate hearing last week that there is no evidence to support the belief that the Islamic State terror group is planning a cross border attack on U.S. soil.

Taylor, DHS undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about DHS being "unaware" of a threat from the group, which is also called ISIS or ISIL.

"At present, DHS is unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland from ISIL," Taylor said Wednesday, according to a transcript.

"I'm satisfied we have the intelligence and the capability on our border that would prevent that activity."

Based in Northern Iraq and Syria, ISIS has garnered international attention for its military victories and brutal acts of violence against civilians and religious minorities.

With a force of over 30,000, hundreds of ISIS' fighters are citizens of western nations, including the United Kingdom and the U.S.

The number of American citizens belonging to ISIS has prompted individuals like Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry to conclude that they are planning to attack American soil.

"We have seen historic high levels of individuals from countries with terrorist ties over the course of the last few months," Perry said last month. "Because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secured and us not knowing who is penetrating across, individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states ... I think it is a very real possibility that they have already used that."

Judicial Watch, a conservative organization, also claimed that anonymous intelligence officials have confirmed that ISIS is operating in border towns, such as Ciudad Juarez.

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