Lets all give Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry a big round of applause for not only leading to the rise of ISIS, but it’s popularity, here in America among Muslims. So far there have been 71 ‘Americans’ arrested trying to join ISIS. Of those 71, 56 of them have been arrested in 2015. Several thousand already in this country support ISIS.
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Following the attack on Paris by ISIS which left 130 dead, the FBI honed in on 100 of those 900 investigations and took “them up a notch,” according to FBI Director James Comey. The hardest task for federal law enforcement tracking these threats is prioritizing those they think are actually at risk of carrying out similar attacks over those that only consume the propaganda.
And while the U.S. only saw 15 arrests for ISIS related activities in 2014 that number has more than tripled with at least 56 people being charged in the U.S. so far in 2015.
Of those 71 total individuals arrested for their involvement or interest in joining ISIS since the terror group’s rise to prominence in early 2014, the vast majority of them were U.S. citizens or permanent residents, with the youngest suspect being 15. Their crimes ran the spectrum from the spreading of propaganda to actively seeking out weapons and co-conspirators to carry out an attack within the U.S.
The breakdown of those arrested with ISIS related crimes also gives a glimpse into the motive behind those supporters, with only 27% plotting to carry out an attack in America and more than half traveling or attempting to travel abroad to join ISIS in Syria or Iraq.