US: Seven of 129 Americans Who Fought for ISIS Have Returned Home

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The danger posed by returning Americans who have trained with and fought for ISIS overseas cannot be understated nor ignored.  The Geller Report has revealed the official United States policy that any foreign fighters, American or otherwise, who have joined ISIS should die on the battlefield.  While it is impossible to know exactly how many Americans have left home to join ISIS, it is heartening to know that of those our government knows about, very few have returned home thus far.

From The Daily Mail:

More than 120 Americans who were recruited to fight for ISIS are unaccounted for, according to a new report.

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This week, the Soufan Center – a Washington-based security intelligence consultancy – released ‘Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees’.

In the report, the agency said that at least 5,600 citizens or residents from 33 countries have returned home, making up approximately 15 per cent of ISIS’s fighters.

However, for the United States, of the 129 fighters who succeeded in leaving the country, only seven have returned home.

In 2015, the US government estimated that approximately one in five of the American fighters who fled to join ISIS were killed in war zones.

However, there are no exact numbers of how many were killed abroad or how many may have escaped into other countries – leaving the whereabouts of many unknown.

An FBI spokesperson told Fox News that 300 Americans have ‘traveled or attempted to travel to Syria and Iraq to participate in the conflict’ – including those have joined other armed groups, such as the US-backed People’s Protection Units, Peshmerga or Free Syrian Army.

‘While this number is lower in comparison to many of our international partners, we closely analyze and assess the influence groups like ISIS have on individuals located in the United States, who are inspired to commit acts of violence,’ the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson also said of the 300 US fighters, approximately 40 died after traveling to Iraq or Syria.

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Of the 5,000 residents of the European Union who flocked to Iraq and Syria, a quarter are believed to have returned home.

The countries with the highest number of foreign fighters included Jordan at 3,000 with around 50 returning home.

In France, 271 of 1,910 fighters have returned, and in Morocco, 198 have gone home out of 1,623.

‘America does not strip the citizenship of those who join ISIS, so we can’t prevent them from coming home,’ national security expert Ryan Mauro, from the Clarion Project, told Fox News.

‘A lot of these returning ISIS recruits are likely disillusioned with the caliphate, but we must not mistake disappointment with a rejection of jihadist thinking overall.’

While the Soufan Report cited (only 41 pages, read it; the best counter-jihadist is an informed counter-jihadist!) does not specify what happened to the seven Americans who returned home from battle, it does note that ‘the United States has charged 135 individuals for terrorism offenses relating to IS, with 77 convicted by August 2017.’  Additionally, the Soufan Group also divulges that the recapture of ISIS-held territory has been an enormous windfall for intelligence agencies on individual ISIS members:

However, the recovery of large amounts of data following the fall of IS administrative centers such as Mosul in July 2017, Tal Afar in August 2017 and Raqqa in October 2017, has helped to reveal the identities of many foreign fighters and has already led to the disruption of connected cells in third countries.

Like al-Qaeda, IS has maintained meticulous records of its membership, administrative orders and deployments, and there has been a considerable international effort to collect and share this information, especially the details and origins of its fighters. By September 2017, INTERPOL had collected the names of around 19,000 people who were confirmed to have joined IS, along with detailed identifying particulars.

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Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

it’s their right as americans. they only want a second chance to start again in USA. islam is peace so there’s nothing to fear

InfidelCrusader
InfidelCrusader
6 years ago

The ISIS brand of Islam didn’t seem particularly peaceful. Why should we expect ISIS fighters that have returned to be any more peaceful here than they were over there?

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Never thought I would ever agree with you on anything but you and George W. Bush got it right, kill them over there or kill them over here.

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago

Religion of peace what a contradiction of facts. As it says in your book, peace will only come when the world is islam

mztore
mztore
6 years ago

Why allow the idiots back in the states to begin with….they are traitors – – every one of them.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Now you see why I carry a concealed weapon everywhere I go, especially to church.

Be safe, be trained, be alert.

Marino Danielis
Marino Danielis
6 years ago

I hope they were all arrested and taken to Guantanamo

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

it’s their right as americans. they only want a second chance and start again in USA. islam is peace, otherwise Trump’d have banned it and wouldn’t have hotels in muslim countries. so there’s nothing to fear. islam belongs in USA now. we must get used to see mosques here and there. muslims will be america’s new workers, taxidrivers, chefs, cops, politicians………., rulers

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago

And it’s their rights as Americans to be arrested and put on trail for treason by a military tribunal and to be put up in front of a firing squad or life in Gitmo if found guilty.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

you are very right. We all need to ignore all perverts.

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

Yeah your right there, either he’s a troll, a muslim or one of their sympathizers. either way a piece of crap

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

speaking FACTS is trolling? it seems you are just afraid of FACTS. islam will dominate

PolynikesII
PolynikesII
6 years ago

Allahu FUBAR

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

Sorry, but you got your head up your dirty ass. Yes, we will need a bunch of muslims, just not like you think. We will need them as ground up meat for our nation’s dog food supply. So, get busy and spread the word amongst you people.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Just doing my part 🙂

GR Arnold
GR Arnold
6 years ago

Their passports should’ve been revoked and entry prohibited. Now they all need to be watched.

PolynikesII
PolynikesII
6 years ago

They took up arms against the USA in the name of a vile and depraved ideology. Why haven’t they have been arrested and charged with treason?

tom
tom
6 years ago

Get a rope.

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
6 years ago

I thought it was against the law to be come a mercenary.

freepetta
freepetta
6 years ago

Why are those terrorists traitors permitted to come back to wreak havoc on us? If the FBI knows who they are, they should be watched and their phone calls tapped and computers hacked to see their plans. The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies has failed us numerous times.

If the FBI can do all that to Paul Manafort for crazy bumped up political charges they should concentrate even more aggressively on the public’s safety

McCabe and his political hacks at the FBI should be thrown out ASAP. All they’re interested in is protecting themselves from their own illegal actions.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago
Reply to  freepetta

That’s a pipe dream. The FBI was watching every single terrorist that committed a successful attack on U.S. citizens, yet allowed them to do it. They are part of Washington’s jihad lottery.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

‘…America does not strip the citizenship of those who join ISIS, so we can’t prevent them from coming home,’ national security expert Ryan Mauro, from the Clarion Project, told Fox News.
‘A lot of these returning ISIS recruits are likely disillusioned with the caliphate, but we must not mistake disappointment with a rejection of jihadist thinking overall…’

UNBELIEVABLE!

Ram Ohri
Ram Ohri
6 years ago

The number of ISIS fighter returning to US is far bigger than 7. It could even be 50.

Ram Ohri

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