'Hundreds' of Americans linked to IS: lawmaker
Source: AFP
Several hundred US citizens may have had contact with Islamic State jihadists in Syria, the chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
Republican lawmaker Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, told "Fox News Sunday" he was concerned about efforts to keep track of Americans who had links to the group.
"It's in the hundreds that have at least one time traveled, participated and trained with them," Rogers said.
"Some have drifted back, some have gone to Europe."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-americans-linked-lawmaker-212608423.html
arcane1
(38,613 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:10 PM - Edit history (1)
ancianita
(36,075 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Papers, please!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)which should be amended to say ISIS.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Seriously, demonizing Russia, destabilizing a different Middle East country every week, going back to Iraq, trying to use our destabilization effort in Syria as an excuse to bomb that country again...
I kind of expect to hear that Germany has made a secret anti-US pact with Mexico and Great Britain is pressing American sailors into the Royal Navy at sea any day now.
Or possibly a civil war at home or alien invasion.
They will keep going until some shit sticks.
Meanwhile the gun fetishists will be keeping a closer eye on their neighbors. They're already on high alert what with this South American kids infected with Ebola and all.
Agreed-- the MIC will keep reaching into its bag of tricks as long as necessary.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)...in letting these "hundreds of Americans" know they're being surveilled.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)booga
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)..with the help of one of his CIA buddies that needs funding to keep their Paramilitary Unit from being redundant.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)He's making a statement of fact about unnamed "hundreds."
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)whether or not it's backed up by facts is debatable. I take anything said by a Repuke on Faux with a huge grain of salt.
bvf
(6,604 posts)to induce fear by pointing to an unnamed enemy in the midst of the audience without any evidence. That whole "national security" thing provides a nice cover, no?
Warmongers in your government are doing their damnedest to arouse hysteria to gain support for military intervention. That bothers me. It should bother you.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Either prove it or shut the eff up, Mike Rogers.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)That's all I need to know...
Deadbeat Republicans
(111 posts)taken consideration, that I'm counting all the CIA operatives ...