Friday, January 10, 2014

A Good Place to Park this Story — It Has Legs

Photo Grabbed From Story 

Highlights:

Dozens of people from the U.S. who fought in Syria have returned home and are under FBI surveillance, but American officials fear that they haven't identified all of them, several senior officials told ABC News in interviews beginning last October.

The senior officials said that more than 50 “U.S. persons” — a designation that covers both natural-born and naturalized citizens as well as those who have lived in the U.S. — have returned here after battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the Middle Eastern nation's bloody civil war (a lot of news clips here). 

One of the senior counter-terrorism officials went further, saying the actual number of returning U.S. fighters from Syria is classified but is “much higher” than 50.

Not all of those who have returned are considered “Jihadis” who adhere to the anti-U.S. violent ideology espoused by the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden, but many are suspected of such sympathies, officials say. 

Continue at the story link. As they say in the media business: This story has legs. Stay tuned.

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