{"id":9750,"date":"2015-11-25T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2015-11-25T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:22:17","slug":"isis-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/isis-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This is one of the best, most practical and useful reports I have seen produced on ISIS to date, def better than ANYTHING the Govt. has cooked up. Remember: Information is Power. Know the Threat, Know your Enemy. We will be discussing more about this report after The Thanksgiving Break.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9752\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/isis.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX USA (2642870a) Hayat Boumeddiene, far right Hayat Boumeddiene 'appears in Islamic State film' - 06 Feb 2015 The latest video released by French-speaking Islamic state (ISIS), fighters may be Hayat Boumeddiene, who is believed to have knowledge about the deadly January 9, 2015 attack on a Paris kosher grocery,The video, titled &quot;Blow Up France 2,&quot; was released Tuesday and shows an ISIS fighter praising previous attackers in France and calling for new attacks. The video shows a woman standing next to the speaker, wearing camouflage clothing and holding a weapon. French authorities are investigating the possibility this woman could be Hayat Boumeddiene. Her husband, Amedy Coulibaly, killed four hostages January 9 at a kosher grocery in Paris, authorities said. He was killed by police in a rescue and the remaining hostages fled to safety.\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Who exactly are the estimated 4,500 Westerners drawn to join ISIS and other militant groups in Syria, and how great of a threat do they pose? In the wake of Friday\u2019s harrowing terrorist attacks in Paris, New America\u2019s <b>Peter Bergen<\/b>, <b>Courtney Schuster<\/b>, and <b>David Sterman<\/b>are today publishing \u201c<b><a href=\"https:\/\/static.newamerica.org\/attachments\/11813-isis-in-the-west-2\/ISP-Isis-In-The-West-v2.b4f2e9e3a7c94b9e9bd2a293bae2e759.pdf\">ISIS in the West: The New Faces of Extremism<\/a><\/b>,\u201d a new report reviewing what we know about the Westerners drawn to Jihadist groups.<\/p>\n<p>New America has collected information about 475 individuals from 25 Western countries who have been reported by credible news sources as having left their home countries to join ISIS or other Sunni jihadist groups in Syria or Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The report finds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Western fighters in Syria and Iraq represent a new demographic profile<\/b>. <em>An unprecedented number of the militant recruits are female,<\/em> young (with an average age of 24), and active in online jihadist circles. This is quite different from Western militants who fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s or Bosnia in the 1990s.<\/li>\n<li><b>Many have familial ties to jihadism.<\/b> One-third of Western fighters have a familial connection to jihad, whether through relatives currently fighting in Syria or Iraq, marriage, or some other link to jihadists from prior conflicts or terrorist attacks.<\/li>\n<li><b>The likeliest threat to the U.S. comes from ISIS-inspired violence.<\/b>Returning fighters from Syria pose a limited threat to the U.S., while the threat from returning fighters to other Western countries is greater.<\/li>\n<li><b>Few of the Western fighters who have traveled to Syria or Iraq are in government custody.<\/b> Only one-sixth of Western fighters in New America\u2019s dataset are in custody and over two-fifths of the individuals are still at large.<\/li>\n<li><b>The wars in Syria and Iraq have proven deadly for Western militants.<\/b>Almost two-fifths of Western fighters in New America\u2019s dataset have been reported as dead in Syria or Iraq. Almost half of the male foreign fighters and 6 percent of female militants have been killed.<\/li>\n<li><b>The majority of Western fighters have joined ISIS.<\/b> Only one-tenth have joined Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda\u2019s Syrian affiliate, and only 6 percent have joined other smaller groups.<\/li>\n<li><b>The most popular route to Syria is through Turkey.<\/b> Forty-two percent of the Western foreign fighters made their way to Syria or Iraq via Turkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Tuesday, November 17, New America will hold an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/international-security\/isis-in-the-west\/\">event<\/a> to further discuss findings from the report. Please RSVP <a href=\"https:\/\/newamerica.cvent.com\/events\/isis-in-the-west\/registration-9b6f4117b6624c1999148171e2bb639c.aspx\">here<\/a> to attend. On Wednesday, November 18, <b>Peter Bergen<\/b> will be testifying about ISIS and the West at a <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/hearing\/joint-hearing-rise-radicalism-growing-terrorist-sanctuaries-and-threat-us-homeland\">joint hearing<\/a> of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/static.newamerica.org\/attachments\/11813-isis-in-the-west-2\/ISP-Isis-In-The-West-v2.b4f2e9e3a7c94b9e9bd2a293bae2e759.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also watch a very informative hour long video clip of the discussion of the report by the authors<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/international-security\/isis-in-the-west\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/new-america\/isis-in-the-west-2\/\">New America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best, most practical and useful reports I have seen produced on ISIS to date, def better than ANYTHING the Govt. has cooked up. Remember: Information is Power. Know the Threat, Know your Enemy. We will be discussing more about this report after The Thanksgiving Break.-SF &nbsp; Washington, D.C. \u2014 Who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,1704,74,2086,2417,2413,2726,2990,1189,272],"tags":[3126,1511,3127,3128],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}