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ISIS Risk in the U.S. Is Homegrown, Numbers Show
ISIS Risk in the U.S. Is Homegrown, Numbers Showby Robert Windrem at NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/isis-risk-u-s-homegrown-numbers-show-n467361
"SNIP.............
Here are a number of the key datapoints:
--55 of the 68 arrested are U.S. citizens. Of the 55 citizens, 12 were naturalized, the rest American-born.
--Of the 25 not born in the U.S., seven were born in Europe -- all from the states of the former Yugoslavia; another six in Africa --Somalia, Ghana and and Sudan; six were born in the Middle East -- one each from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt and Palestine; five were from Central Asia --Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; and one was from Cuba.
--At least one-third of those arrested are converts to Islam.
--More than half of those charged, 36, allegedly wanted to travel to Syria to fight. Eighteen allegedly aspired to be domestic plotters, and Greenberg said the Justice Department's most recent investigations appear to be more focused on domestic plotters. The other 14 were a mixture of alleged aspiring recruiters and cyberterrorists.
..............SNIP"
