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    Another DHS Failure---Americans Joining Jihadists

    http://news.yahoo.com/us-lacks-strat...54713308.html#

    US lacks strategy to stop Americans joining jihadists: report

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    Washington (AFP) - Nearly 30,000 foreigners -- including at least 4,500 Westerners -- have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight with jihadists since 2011 and the United States is failing to stop Americans from joining them, a report warned Tuesday.
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    The document describes a national security infrastructure that is ill-equipped to deal with the myriad ways foreign jihadists contact and recruit Americans.
    "The US government lacks a national strategy for combating terrorist travel and has not produced one in nearly a decade," states the report, which was compiled by a task force for the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee.
    "The unprecedented speed at which Americans are being radicalized by violent extremists is straining federal law enforcement's ability to monitor and intercept suspects," the report said.
    Additionally, law enforcement tools haven't kept pace with technological shifts, as jihadist recruiters increasingly use secure websites and apps to communicate with Americans -- making it harder for law enforcement to disrupt plots and terrorist travel.
    The foreign fighters that have enlisted with Islamist jihadist groups include at least 4,500 Westerners, the report states.
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    Of that number, more than 250 Americans have joined or tried to fight with IS jihadists.
    "What keeps me up at night are the ones we've missed. The ones who have come back who are plotting an attack. The ones who are being radicalized over the Internet from Syria social media operatives," Congressman Michael McCaul, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, told MSNBC.
    The report states that some of the foreign fighters that flew to Syria initially did so to help oust President Bashar al-Assad, "but most are now joining the Islamic State (group), inspired to become a part of the group's 'caliphate' and to expand its repressive society."
    The task force report presents dozens of key findings and recommendations, and calls for an overview of the US strategy to combat terrorist travel, as well better intelligence sharing domestically and with other countries.
    The report also blasts security weaknesses overseas, especially in Europe.
    "Pervasive overseas security gaps make it easier for aspiring foreign fighters to travel to terrorist hotspots -- and increase the odds that trained jihadists will be able to travel to America undetected," the report said.
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    Full Report:https://homeland.house.gov/wp-conten...inalReport.pdf

    2 page summary:https://homeland.house.gov/wp-conten...AL_2pager1.pdf

    Write to Chair Michael McCaul and demand that we not have more Middle Easterners settled in the US, since we already have several hundred that have walked off to join terror groups. And also to curtail the invasion of our southern borders by narco-terror groups, crime rings and journeying businesspeople exploiting the US economy;
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    Everything about this government is a .... failure.

    Everything.
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    True. Except for their ability to hold on to power. So we have to work with what we have.
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    Just sent this off to the US House Committee on Homeland Security. Chairman Michael McCaul: homeland.security@mail.house.gov

    Please forward this to the Committee Chair:



    Thanks you for your efforts to identify the enlistment of US citizens and residents into foreign terror organizations. It is not only the US, but our European allies also are experiencing this. Yet many politicians still acquiesce to letting more people from countries with clear terrorist ties to immigrate. I am shocked to think of the consequences if European countries allow one million people---including who knows how many bona fide religious zealots and potential terrorists---to settle in their regions and form isolated communities, where local law enforcement officials may not dare to go.



    Our own country is now being coerced to accept thousands of people---who may also have such terror ties. Why should we allow this? So we can have repeats of the Boston bombing massacre where 6 people were killed , 280 injured, and 14 required amputations? What justification is there for this?



    And also our southern border has turned into probably the largest criminal organization crossing in the Western world. Official news releases from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show that every week there are sizable crime rings uncovered, or die hard criminals arrested. it reads like a crime magazine----with shocking reports such as hundreds of pounds of drugs, or huge human smuggling rings, fraudulent document mills. Please look at just the recent headlines:



    http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice...safety-threats



    http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/mas...ficking-minors



    Americans pay their taxes so that we can be safe. Not so that our neighborhoods can be riddled with criminals and crime rings. Moreover the policy of the Obama administration in only targeting so called violent offenders misses the point: The disruption to one's own life can be even greater when identity is stolen, or an uninsured illegal driver runs into you, or women come in and then engage in or are swept into prostitution rings. These kinds of things are very common.



    And they should be considered a national security threat, as those events seriously undermine the ability of law enforcement to go after other criminal activities, and the investigation and jailing of these criminals costs US taxpayers billions every year. If the Obama Administration will no take its job of border protection seriously, then the US Congress MUST ACT. That is what I am calling on you, Chairman McCaul, TO DO!



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