Posted on 11/22/2016 11:36:12 AM PST by heterosupremacist
According to an FBI spokesperson, 250 Americans have “traveled or attempted to travel” to Syria or Iraq to join ISIS or other terrorist groups over the past few years. It is not clear how many made it, but the FBI reports a decrease in recent months. The slowing of all foreign recruits – from a pinnacle of 2,000 per month to now less than 50 – comes as a result of both stricter border controls in neighboring countries and evident ISIS battlefield losses, which hurts their resolve and enlistment efforts.
As the noose tightens around ISIS’ Iraq headquarters of Mosul, and international forces take aim at the terror army’s main stronghold of Raqqa, in Syria, U.S. intelligence officials are watching for American jihadists aiming to flee for their homeland. As it stands, around 8,000 total ISIS fighters, one-fifth foreign, are believed to still be inside the Mosul area alone.
Col. Marwan Sabri, of the Yazidi Peshmerga battalion, recalled that in March this year, a disillusioned American surrendered, begging Kurdish fighters not to shoot at him. He turned out to be 26-year-old Mohamed Jamal Khweis from Virginia. He was extradited to the U.S. and is scheduled to stand trial in April.
“The Americans are in the ranks,” Sabri said.
Another high-ranking soldier affirmed that American accents have been heard on radio intercepts.
“Some Americans were working intel and some were fighting. Some get to high positions, some have been killed,” the source said. “And some, we think, are still alive.”
According to Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qader Mohammad, director of the Kirkuk Province Police Department, forces have “killed many” ISIS fighters, thought to be from the U.S., throughout the war’s duration.
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Oh, yeah! The Khweises!
...definitely an established family name in Virginia - dates back to well before the war of northern aggression, I'm sure...
Identify, arrest, imprison.
CCW.
Well, as long as they are on a Watch List, everything is under control. Besides, you just have to get used to Jihad in America. How is ole Nadal doin’ these daze?
Let’s be sure not to profile them. That would be offensive.
Better yet, send them back to Syria and Iraq and them be punished there.
I bet he is a Presbyterian like Trump. Oops, I am guilty of religious profiling.
Treason. Hang them.
New recruits for Obama’s Organizing for America organization.
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