Posted on 08/30/2014 1:50:28 AM PDT by GonzoII
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that officials are considering “additional security measures” to intercept foreign fighters who have joined up with radical militants overseas, on the heels of reports that two Americans have died fighting for the Islamic State in Syria.
The development comes as the British government raises its threat level to “severe” amid the crisis in the Middle East. The White House said Friday there are “no plans” to follow suit in Washington; DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said his department and the FBI are not aware of any “specific, credible threat” to the U.S. homeland from the Islamic State.
However, Johnson said the government is “deeply concerned” about the situation in Iraq and Syria and is considering additional precautions – presumably regarding westerners fighting with ISIS who would try to return home.
“We are contemplating additional security measures concerning foreign fighters,” he announced.
Without getting into specifics, Johnson said “some of the security measures will be visible to the public and some understandably will be unseen.”
He noted DHS already has taken a “number of steps” to boost security at overseas airports with direct flights to the U.S., as well as steps to “track foreign fighters who travel in and out of Syria.”
Comments from Washington and London on Friday reflected growing concern about the possibility of terror being exported from the battlefields in Syria and Iraq.
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The only “steps” these stumblebums are going to take will be tripping over each other on the way to the break room.
Tan Suit and his comrades must mean they will be handing out some more Congressional Medals of Honor.
The traveling public mostly impacted: women, children, older people, and the handicapped. As well as anyone who is white.
Young muslims of all colors will continue to get a free pass in the name of ‘diversity’, as well as threat of legal challenges from CAIR.
Came here to say the same thing. Watch out all you handicapped nuns. You’re gonna have a hard time traveling.
Close the Southern Border of the USA, period.
My thoughts, too. This is another excuse to crack down on the law abiding and restrict remaining rights of travel while leaving the borders open to the massive inflow of invaders and outright terrorists.
More traffic checks on all gravel roads and major creeks in your area coming soon.
Like the mules with Ebola and Tuberculosis,
DH”S” (organ of the Tyrant and al Qaeda/HAMAS)
will ship the infected and weaponized to all 57 States.
The government has made the PEOPLE and their Constitution
the government’s enemy.
DHS = muslim brotherhood. They’re going to stop trained terrorists from reentering this country? I don’t think so. DHS is probably buying their plane tickets for 9/11.
DHS are such bungling idiots and coconspirators. That they are going to “protect” the US is a joke. I bet the majority of the employees are moozlums or moozlum sympathizers. Their main interest is their doughnut breaks and their pensions.
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