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FBI Official: ISLAMIC STATE Is Recruiting U.S. Teens

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Obama Whistleblower: Terror-Linked Muslim Groups Helping Set Policy, Costing Lives (breitbart, July 6, 2016)
http://bit.ly/29oUJzc


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FBI official: ISIS is recruiting U.S. teens (CNN, Feb 4, 2015)
http://cnn.it/1yDyBCW

"For the head of the FBI's counterterrorist division, Michael Steinbach, the unknown worries him the most.

Steinbach is leading the daunting effort to stay on top of the evolving threat landscape, which includes targeting and recruiting teenage Americans. In an exclusive interview with CNN inside the agency's Strategic Information and Operations Center, he acknowledged it's extremely difficult to track every American who might travel abroad to join terrorist groups like the Islamic State.

"I'm worried about individuals that we don't know about that have training," Steinbach said. "We know what we know. But there is a number that's greater than that that we don't know."

Steinbach says U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies don't track individuals leaving the United States to vacation in Europe.

"Once you get to Europe, you can easily get down to Turkey and into Syria" Steinbach says.

There's growing concern about homegrown violent extremism in the aftermath of last month's terror attacks in Paris. Those strikes underscored the threat posed to the West by small groups of terrorists with western passports who are influenced by the rhetoric espoused by ISIS. Steinbach is concerned that type of attack could happen on U.S. soil..."

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