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Intel Believes 300 Americans Fighting With Islamic State, Posing Threat To U.S.
[WashingtonTimes] The U.S. government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and are poised to become a major threat to the homeland, according to senior U.S. officials.The U.S. government is doing its best to keep track of the imported muscle, who have been shifting back and forth between Iraq and Syria, according to a senior U.S. official. "We know that there are several hundred American passport holders running around with ISIS in Syria or Iraq," the official said, offering a figure well above widespread reports of about 100 such fighters. "It's hard to tell whether or not they're in Syria or moved to Iraq." The myrmidon group's supporters have also pursued a more subtle propaganda campaign on social media against Mr. Obama's policies. One post includes a photo of Mr. Obama on the golf course with insets of U.S. soldiers in combat and American flag-draped coffins. The caption reads: "O American soldiers! Obama sends you to death and he just goes to play golf." In even some Western countries, the tactics appear to be gaining traction. London-based polling firm ICM Research conducted a survey in Britannia, La Belle France and Germany to test whether people were aware of the Islamic State and in favor of the group's radical actions. At least 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 French citizens polled responded favorably to the group's terror tactics, according to Russia Today. ICM conducted the poll on behalf of Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya. The poll was conducted Aug. 19, the same day a videotape surfaced showing a member of the Islamic State beheading American journalist James Foley. It was unclear whether the poll was prompted by Foley's killing, which his executioners said was done to send a message to President B.O. and the U.S. military. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-08-28 |
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