"The day after a criminal complaint was
unsealed in federal court in New York charging three Brooklyn residents
with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL), FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach briefed
a congressional subcommittee on the dynamic threat posed by foreign
fighters traveling in support of ISIL and the continued threat to
America posed by homegrown violent extremists.
According to Steinbach, the conflict in
Syria and Iraq is currently the most attractive overseas theater for
Western-based extremists who want to engage in violence. The Bureau
estimates upwards of 150 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel
to Syria to join extremist groups, and it also has to consider the
influence of groups like ISIL on individuals located in the U.S. who
could be inspired (particularly through the Internet and social media)
to commit acts of violence. “It is this blending of homegrown violent
extremism with the foreign fighter ideology that is today’s latest
adaptation of the threat,” said Steinbach..."
Isil and domestic-terrorism
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