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“politically-motivated”. Maybe? But they also speak the truth
Terrorists
within? FBI urges Americans to inform on 'suspicious' fellow citizens
The
FBI counter-terrorism division is calling on to Americans to report
on fellow citizens engaged in suspicious activities to help identify
possible terrorists, in the first place those connected to terrorist
activities overseas.
RT,
8
October, 2014
In
a statement published by the FBI on Tuesday, assistant director of
the counter-terrorism division Michael Steinbach said the Bureau
needs “the public's assistance in identifying US persons, going to
fight overseas with terrorist groups or who are returning home from
fighting overseas.”
Any
useful information about terror suspects can be sent to the FBI’s
website or by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI, the agency announced.
Steinbach
also asked the American public to help identifying a man from a IS
propaganda video aimed at appealing to a Western audience.
In
the 55-minute video, a masked man addressed a group of alleged
Islamic State prisoners in Arab and English.
"Dressed
in desert camouflage and wearing a shoulder holster, the masked man
can be seen standing in front of purported prisoners as they dig
their own graves and then later presiding over their executions,"
the FBI said. His accent is believed to be North American, he added.
“We’re
hoping that someone might recognize this individual and provide us
with key pieces of information,” Steinbach said, adding: “No
piece of information is too small.”
There
have been a number of arrests of terror suspects made on American
soil since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Dozens of American citizens in
recent years have joined various terrorist organizations, such as
Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Taliban militants in Pakistan or the Al-Shabaab
terrorist group in Somalia.
Yet
now there is a new global international terrorist organization called
the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL), that has captured
large areas of Iraq and Syria, and is fighting with all of its
neighbors: the Iraqi army, the Syrian army and Kurdish Peshmerga
self-defense forces.
On
Saturday, the FBI arrested Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, at Chicago’s
O'Hare International Airport, who was preparing to board a flight to
Vienna with the alleged intention of traveling to Syria via Turkey,
and of joining the Islamic State terrorist organization.
“We
are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral
day by day,” Khan wrote, explaining his motivations in a three-page
letter to his parents discovered in his bedroom by FBI agents. “I
do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this,” he wrote,
the AP reported.
As
of August, there were a reported 12,000 militants from 50 nations
fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State militia, the US State
Department estimated
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