EXCLUSIVE — Islamic State: ‘The Threat to the United States’
 

http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...united-states/

A Mclean, Virginia-based defense think-tank has published a prescient white-paper on the Islamic State terror group, which has been made available exclusively to Breitbart News prior to its release.

The Threat Knowledge Group (TKG), headed by Katherine C. Gorka, its President, and Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University and a Breitbart Contributor, released a comprehensive study Monday titled “ISIS: The Threat to the United States.”

After last week’s attacks in Paris that killed over one-hundred people and wounded hundreds more, particular national attention has turned to national security issues, as the American people continue to fear that the United States is becoming more vulnerable to jihadist attacks.

“The scope and lethality of the Paris attack changes everything. The U.S. will have to take the domestic threat of ISIS much more seriously now,” Threat Knowledge Group President Katherine Gorka told Breitbart News.

“We wanted to do this study because we felt that the Administration was downplaying the domestic threat of ISIS, focusing instead on ‘right-wing extremism.’ The problem with that is that it means law enforcement is not prepared. They’re looking out the window while the threat is coming in the door,” she added.

Threat Knowledge Group supports the Defense Department and FBI with strategic analysis and training, and this latest report unveils the Islamic State’s recruitment network inside of the United States.

They found that over 250 people from the United States have attempted to join ISIS, according to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee. Also, some 82 individuals in the United States have been interdicted by federal agents as part of ISIS plots, according to a database compiled by Threat Knowledge Group.

And the FBI already has almost 1,000 active ISIS investigations in the United States, the report adds.

In its study, TKG also compares and contrasts the Islamic State with Al Qaeda.

The report notes that “ISIS is a fully-fledged insurgency” and has been able to achieve far more than Al Qaeda has in its past. In such a short amount of time, ISIS has been able to recruit a force of tens-of-thousands of jihadis while also controlling territory, a feat that Al Qaeda has never accomplished by itself.

ISIS has trumped Al Qaeda’s recruiting capacity as well, according to the report. TKG found that from March 2014 to November 2015, ISIS arrests occurred over three times more often than for Al Qaeda members, with 4.1 ISIS cases per month compared to Al Qaeda’s monthly 1.5 average.

In an ultra-important measure to establish legitimacy in the Islamic world, ISIS “successfully declared the Caliphate after 90 years of absence, and it is growing,” the report adds.

The study also delves into several other issues related to understanding ISIS as a jihadi organization, covering topics such as “What ISIS believes in” and “Who is ISIS recruiting?”

TKG warns that the United States must steel itself for the “difficult times ahead” and be ready to counter the threats posed by ISIS inside of the United States. They recommend that U.S. officials follow five steps in countering the current threat environment.

In summary, TKG recommends that American officials should:
1.“Stop downplaying the seriousness of the threat.”
2.“Recognize that ISIS is targeting youth, and do more to protect youth from radicalization.”
3.“Target the ideologues.”
4.“Better utilize open-source intelligence.”
5.“Screen refugees.”
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If Tonyz's 19 minute video is any indication of how the LE will react we are in serious trouble if we plan on Uncle Sugar protecting its citizenry.

lol Now, let's see-how many AR's, pistolas and pump shotguns have been sold in the past 12 years? :D

I need to get a pump shotgun.


If and when the swarm arrives in the US it will be up to the citizenry to protect their own......LE will be busy protecting the government assets and the asses that run them.

This Country hasn't been kept in the dark about an abject threat as imminent as this since immediately prior to WWI.

Now, those were the days...

Distractions like Dancing with the Stars, Survivor, College Football ad the World series do take their toll.

British Parliament vote on bombing ISIS
 

Wasn't that Benn speech excellent. I don't agree with his politics, but this is all the more reason to admire his moral strength in taking the stand he did. The delivery was of the highest order and while the words may not have been as inspirational as a Churchillian speech, overall I think is ranks up there with Henry V St Crispin Day speech and Winston's End of the Beginning speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GTNK4VsXs

Let's hope they're wakin' up.

No, because he still refers to the hordes invading Europe as refugees. He also still thinks that Assad is the major problem and that there is such a thing as a moderate element to this opposition.

I think that they will make lots of pretty speeches and end up running in the opposite direction. A pretty speech merely to get them back into the fray to pursue their other agenda.

Sure they'll try and keep Daesh at bay much like one would keep a firebreak under control. The aim is to achieve another Libya and we all know how that has turned out.

The new opiate of the masses.

Pat

ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa
 

Pretty good paper done by the Program on Extremism at Geo. Wash. University
A large part of its focus is on the targeting of youth and impact of social media. Figured this would tie-in well with the precept of Dusty's thread here.

Dropbox link here (Can read online, or a 50pg PDF if you want to download)