Posted on 09/20/2014 4:57:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
These individuals under surveillance, 'being tracked' by the FBI.
Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S. citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States, where they could pose a terrorist threat.
Bishop claims that of the 100 or so Americans who have traveled to the Middle East to join ISIL’s ranks, some 40 have returned and are currently being surveilled by the FBI, according to his remarks, which were filmed and uploaded to YouTube last week.
“One of the concerns is the number of U.S. citizens who have left our country to go join up with ISIS,” Bishop said during the speech. “It is believed there have been some number up to 100 that have done that.”
“It is also believed that some 40 of those who left this country to join up with ISIS have now returned to our country,” Bishop said, eliciting shocked responses from some in the crowd.
These 40 individuals, Bishop said, “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”
Lawmakers have warned that radicalized ISIL fighters could clandestinely enter the United States through the porous southern border.
U.S. officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other security agencies have said that while the southern border poses a risk, they are more concerned about lone wolf attacks in which an isolated radicalized individual with sympathy to ISIL carries out a solo terror attack.
Bishop said that while ISIL poses and extreme threat, it is not yet capable of attacking the United States, though that could change as the group grows in strength and resources.
“It is a very, very complex and very, very dangerous threat and I think the plan that the president outlined the other night [in his national speech] is a good plan,” Bishop maintained.
President Obama “is correct to recognize the threat, and it clearly is a threat to the stability of the Middle East, a region that is already remarkably unstable,” Bishop said.
“It is not yet a threat to the homeland, but there is a concern that it could metastasize in such a way that it could become a threat to the homeland,” Bishop said, echoing concerns expressed by lawmakers on both sides of the isle.
“But at the present time, the intelligence is ISIS does not present a threat to the homeland, although that is not something that will remain static going out into the future,” Bishop said, describing the regional upheaval as “more of a political conflict in the Arab world then a sectarian conflict” between Muslims.
DHS has said that while there is no evidence of a direct threat by ISIL to the United States, it is aware that the group’s affiliates have been discussing the possibility of crossing the southern border.
“There have been Twitter, social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,” Francis Taylor, under secretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, told senators during a recent hearing.
Other U.S. officials also have discussed the possibility of an ISIL adherent carrying out an attack on the United States.
“We remain mindful of the possibility that an ISIL-sympathizer—perhaps motivated by online propaganda—could conduct a limited, self-directed attack here at home with no warning,” Matthew Olsen, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, said in a speech earlier this month.
“We have seen ISIL use a range of media to tout its military capabilities, executions of captured soldiers, and consecutive battlefield victories,” Olsen said. “More recently, the group’s supporters have sustained this momentum on social media by encouraging attacks in the U.S. and against U.S. interests in retaliation for our airstrikes. ISIL has used this propaganda campaign to draw foreign fighters to the group, including many from Western countries.”
If they admit to 40 that means there are dozens they don’t know about.
It won’t take very many solo islamo acts of violence in America to set most right thinking people into action against all muslim scum.
These 40 individuals, Bishop said, “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”
Shoulda kept his mouth shut, instead of informing them of the surveillance. Track ‘em, then “disappear” ‘em.
Yeah, sure. Who let’em back in? I am skeptical about FBI surveillance, if it is true, why is this dope announcing it..
I am not so sure about that. I think the American people are basically stupid. If 9/11 only woke the people up for a short time, I am not sure that even a nuclear attack will wake them up for any great length of time. I don't want that to happen, just to find out, but if the 21st century's version of Pearl Harbor did not seem to wake people up, I don't know what will.
why is this dope announcing it..
Obama wouldnt let em call each of the pukes individually...?
Timmy should know.
Well it is nearing election time, so I guess they were needed to work on campaigns.
Find every one of them and deport them now! NOW!
Why worry, they are being tracked using the same high technology and professionalism that was used to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from causing trouble in Boston.
Oh Wait...
Let’s see.
40 Jihadists.
Split up into teams of four and head out to ten major US cities.
Mount attacks on power grids, shoot motorists from freeway overpasses, blow up elementary schools, bomb ferries and sub ways, spread bio weapons left over from Saddam.
Yep..., oh wait. And so we do. Sadly..., and angrily.
They’re doing both, of course. And the most dangerous are probably coming in by sea.
With most of our resources tied up in Ferguson, Missouri, we just can’t track these members of ISIS.
Damn Republican budget cutting!!!!
These 40 individuals, Bishop said, “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”
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If this is really true, why are they only being watched??? What they’ve already done is treason alone...Enough for indictments, and trials, and sentencing...
You know they used to hang numbnuts like these idiots for less...
Punishments would certainly put a damper on the idiots even thinking about doing this...
But then again, this threat to our nation is not really needing to have people go to an enemy to received training and experience from those talking about hurting us...
They can do it all online now...And I believe it will not be too much longer before a whole lot of hurt to come down on us within our borders...
We’ve already seen a few cases over the years where this is true...
I believe we need to set the tine that more people are not going to be concerned about beating and killing these people radicalizing...
I’m already there...
There are just too many people who still want to try and hug and squeeze this into submission...And those folks are just as dangerous as the terrorists...
When 100 (or more) "American Citizens" leave the United States of America to fight against the United States of America and/or our interests only to return to the United States, that's not exactly what I'd call "clandestinely entering" the U.S.
So if we know who they are, why are they still walking around the streets of our country rather than sitting in a pen down in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba or in prison like Jose Padilla?
If the U.S. can arrest Jose Padilla and detain him all this time for allegedly plotting a dirty bomb attack, why in the hell is our Government allowing 40'ish identified people that fought with ISIS/ISIL to walk around on our streets?
Something stinks to high heaven here, and that odor is emanating from the Justice Department and White House. Muzzie sympathasizers.
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