Posted on 05/18/2015 3:17:57 PM PDT by robowombat
A Dark Vision: ISIS War Front on American Soil?
By Erick Stakelbeck CBN News Correspondent Monday, May 18, 2015
WASHINGTON -- U.S.-led airstrikes may have slowed ISIS's advance in the Middle East, but the brutal terrorist movement continues to attract followers around the world.
ISIS has made no secret of its desire to attack America and it's putting foot soldiers in place to make that dark vision a reality.
After two ISIS supporters attempted to storm a Mohammed cartoon drawing contest and murder everyone inside earlier this month in Garland, Texas, the Islamic State was quick to claim responsibility for what's been called the first ISIS attack on American soil.
The attackers, both American citizens, were killed by a police officer before they had a chance to carry out their plan. But the incident in Texas may have been a sign of things to come.
ISIS in Every State
From Pennyslvania to Illinois to Ohio to Minnesota to Kansas, federal authorities have arrested close to a dozen ISIS supporters in recent weeks.
"We're very definitely in a new environment because of ISIL's effective use of social media, the Internet, which has the ability to reach into the homeland and possibly inspire others…" Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said.
"Because of the use of the Internet, we could have little or no notice in advance of an independent actor attempting to strike," he explained.
In the wake of the Texas attack, FBI Director James Comey said that there are potentially "thousands" of American citizens that now follow ISIS online.
Comey has also said that the FBI is now conducting investigations into ISIS-related activity in all 50 U.S. states.
In addition, U.S. authorities say some 180 U.S. citizens have traveled overseas to join ISIS—and at least 40 of them have already returned.
"What they say is that their first obligation is to go to the caliphate," explained Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for The Clarion Project. "But what they say is that, if they're unable to do that, if they feel they'll be arrested at the airport, that's when they carry out an attack here in the United States."
Orders to Attack
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud was one who made it to Syria. The Columbus, Ohio, resident trained with an Islamic terror group and then returned to the United States with orders to attack the homeland.
He was arrested before he had the chance.
Mohamud had been on U.S. authorities' radar before he left for Syria. That's why terrorism expert Patrick Poole said Mohamud should have never made it that far.
"They allow him to apply for a passport; they allow him to travel to Turkey," Poole told CBN News. "From there he goes into Syria, trains, comes back, and he's wandering the streets of Columbus for eight months."
Like a growing number of American ISIS recruits, Mohamud was of Somali descent.
Most hail from the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul—an area with the largest Somali-Muslim population in North America.
"We've got to revisit these humanitarian visas," former Pentagon spokesman J.D. Gordon, executive director of Protect America Today, said. "We've got so many people here from places like Somalia with major Islamic terror problems and we keep letting them into the country. Why are we doing that?"
America's Dangerous Future
Mauro told CBN News that's one way the United States is heading down a dangerous path.
"You have Sharia patrols in places like the U.K.," Mauro said. "And that's not what we're facing here in the United States, so it's hard for us to believe that that's where we're headed. But if you want to look at the future of the United States, you have to look at Europe."
The goal of ISIS and its growing network of followers in the West is to turn American and European cities into guerilla war zones—with regular attacks similar to those seen recently in Ottawa, Paris, Sydney and Texas.
Gordon told CBN News that to defeat this threat, the Obama administration must first acknowledge that it exists.
"The White House can't even name radical Islam as the enemy," Gordon said. "Radical Islam is trying to wipe us out, and the White House—Barack Obama—won't even mention it."
Ignoring the threat won't make it go away. ISIS recently boasted that it has "71 trained soldiers in 15 different U.S. states"—and promised that the attack in Texas was only the beginning.
Well, we do allow Toyota pickups in every State.....
It has been my opinion that Obama is moving a large body of militants into the U. S. from Syria and other places.
When the citizens have to confront this, it will be interesting who the federal government will side with.
Our own government officials are setting up a war zone in the U. S. It will be broad-spread IMO.
Certain concentrations of these people will constitute something like an army column. Others in cities will become hit and run terrorists plain and simple.
This nation is being taken down.
Democrats still working hard this week to limit Americans online ammo purchases. Face it American, they simply want you dead.
ISIS or ISIL can kill as many jews and homophobic hater Christians as they want with the blessing of the Democrat party. In fact, they will probably pay a bounty through government subsidies...
Have you ever wondered, lately, with all this talk of fear, terror, financial failure, homeless, high gas prices, if we aren’t being feed this b.s. to make us look at government as a source of relief?
Is this what ZerO has planned all along, he wants immigrants all over the place, doesn’t much care about laws we have for this situation, just does it.
I think we are being stupid for even listening to any of it....
IMHO, I think he can do this to ‘his kind’ but he’s not going to get to me, he’s full of ‘hot air’ and nothing else...
40 ISIS fighters have returned to the US? SO much for that asshole Jeh Jeh Johnson at DHS. A more useless POS cannot be found. Same for ICE, but ICE has been crippled by Comrade Obama, Holder (Now Lynch), Harry Reid/Nancy Pelosi, and the anti-security lobby (ACLU, La Raza, CAIR,etc).
If the Congress had any guts, they would vote to declare ISIS “an international criminal enterprise” and say that anyone who helped ISIS is a “criminal” under RICO statutes/terminology, and subject to immediate arrest upon entry into the US. Mere membership, by card or deed, would make these American citizen fighters for ISIS “criminals” and would be convicted of “belonging to an international criminal organization” which would carry a specific jail sentence of its own.
We obviously can’t convict them on “terrorism” charges without eyewitnesses and demonstrative documentation (films of their fighting/committing atrocities), etc. Therefore use the existing RICO statutes by expanding them to terrorism organizations who rob banks, steal property, put women into sexual slavery (sex trafficking), abuse children sexually for military purposes (child abuse), etc.
All we need is an American leadership with balls and brains, neither of which the Obama dictatorship or Congress, has.
If I were to run for the presidency, this is one of the programs I would run on and I would demand that Congress pass this law amending the Racketeering Influenced and Criminal Organization(s) Act (RICO).
Or, I would put out an Executive Order doing it, and fire any government employee who refused to carry it out. It is time to clean out the outhouse that is the Dept. of Justice, ICE, Dept. of Homeland Security, the JCS, etc.
As Harry Truman once said, “The buck stops here”! I would say, either you do your job, or your employment and paycheck stop here (and you will never be eligible to work for the federal govt again).
I do not suffer fools, PERIOD!
Cowboys and muslims! Who will win?
” It has been my opinion that Obama is moving a large body of militants into the U. S. from Syria and other places.”
MANY other places, even Somalia. Probably 80% of them are criminals.
Somali’s and muslisms are the gift that just keeps on giving. I don’t see how regular Americans won’t literally tar & feather our “leaders” if they keep allowing the importing of these freaks into the country.
Yeah. Wouldn’t surprise me.
Give em a few years. Arm them. We can watch them take over small towns and make a name for themselves in the U.S.
I suggest the name ASIS.
I suggest the name ASIS. (ASSES)
“I don’t see how regular Americans won’t literally tar & feather our ‘leaders’ if they keep allowing the importing of these freaks into the country.”
They won’t. They’ll talk about it a lot, though. As long as Americans get government freebies, Apple watches and the other latest electronic toys to pass their idle time, they’re content.
“We’ve got to revisit these humanitarian visas,” former Pentagon spokesman J.D. Gordon, executive director of Protect America Today, said.
Those cows left the barn many years ago.
LOL.
= :^) >
Pray that this is not happening.
It IS happening.
Obama has imported tens of thousands of Muslims into the US.
Now he wants to “resettle” 100,000 Somali’s in the Bible Belt. His first load of Somali’s who went to Minn. increased crime by as much as 450%. DOJ figures.
Are we the only ones who notice this stuff.
Read the UK Telegraph for American news. They usually tell the truth. Our MSM is CLOSED to the public.
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