Posted on 11/15/2015 6:52:03 AM PST by kristinn
One of three ISIS audio messages claiming credit for the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have been read by an English-speaking American.
The potential of an American acting as a spokesman for the terrorist group raises anew concerns about ISIS's support in and internal threat to the United States.
"While I am not prepared to say whether or not it was an American, should we be surprised? No. Greatly disappointed? Absolutely," said former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who became the first Homeland Security director following al-Qaida's 2001 terror attacks.
ISIS claimed responsibility Saturday, describing the six attacks as "just the beginning." Its claim was recorded in English, French and Arabic on Telegram Channel, a secure Internet messaging app.
A man speaking with an apparent American accent recites the five-minute, 56-second English recording. The unidentified speaker refers to an attack on a French stadium during a "soccer" match-- not football, as the sport is known everywhere in the world except the United States.
The use of that idiom could indicate that a U.S. citizen is involved in ISIS's leadership or sophisticated communications team.
"We do know there are Americans who have sympathies for ISIS, who have traveled or expressed a desire to travel to fight in Syria," said Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security assistant secretary who is a vice president of Implant Sciences and an international security and counterterrorism expert.
"The government has done a pretty good job in identifying those people and even getting them before they travel," he said.
But if "an American was in the communications loop somehow...does that mean he might be signaling to other Americans here?" Liscouski asked. "Yes, that could be a signal..."
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I don’t find this surprising at all.
Experts are trying to identify the terrorist who talks like this.
Does Obama have an American accent?
Has to be Obama.
He does sometimes. He has different accents for each group he is bullshattin’.
Obama jokes aside, it was probably one of the many terrorists who learned English while attending college in the United States.
Winner!
“The message starts: “Folks, let me be clear ...””
Ha! Comment of the day!
America’s colleges are probably a prime recruiting ground.
t is our solemn duty to send them straight to the Paradise they so seek and pronto, without passing GO and not collecting 200 Dinars, no hot lunch, no pita, no Idfitar or Ramadan coffee break, no, it's time to kill them all.
I have been advocating the use of Carpet bombing them since 2011. All I said at the time was to send over 70 B-52s and blast them day an night until they yell ‘Uncle Ishmael”.
That is the only way to destroy them.
I will assume the mystery voice belongs to Brian Williams until proven otherwise. My first vote was for Jerry Rivers but he is making live appearances on American TV, so maybe not Jerry.
Ralph Pipes suggested napalming them this morning and The Donald wants to destroy their oilfields. And no “soccer” at Club Gitmo, either.
Have the American pronounce “Pakistan”. Zero pronounces it “Paakistan”.
If the people of France are again compelled to hit the streets they should do so “aggressively” marching through the islamic occupied area’s otherwise they are just pissing in the wind.
Personally I think they should roust them out of their homes and drive them out of the borders, but the French like the rest of western civilization are to passive for that, the people of Poland would do it I think.
should we be surprised? No. Greatly disappointed? Absolutely,” said former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who became the first Homeland Security director following al-Qaida’s 2001 terror attacks
Never forget that Tom Ridge oversaw the REDUCTION of border security AFTER 9/11
Sorry, it would require a committed DoD.
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