Department of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson today reiterated the administration’s growing concern about Western fighters flocking to Syria to join jihadist rebel factions there.
Johnson fears that the thousands of Western fighters are being recruited by al-Qaeda factions within Syria, and will eventually be sent on to attack the US, using their Western passports to provide them access that would be difficult for most of the jihadists.
He’s not the first to express such concerns, and the ever-growing number of citizens from Western nations popping up in Syria have a lot of countries fearing the same thing.
The US has arrested a handful of fighters who have returned from Syria, as have nations like Britain, but the number leaving is far outpacing the number returning, and it remains unclear how well the US is actually able to keep track of who is and isn’t in Syria.
The only ones that are “sent” to Syria will be recognized and used by the government in later time, those whom are flying the Turkish airline from Berlin or from London or Paris are those that are sent by the Saudis intelligent officers stationed in Berlin or London or Paris or Stockholm, they are going to be promoted by the Saudis later in time.
That can't be a problem, those are our widely-heralded heroes of liberty and democracy. Our BFFs in the good al-Qaeda, that we want to finance, equip, arm and train for their struggle for freedom and justice against the Alawite Hitler!
So, the oligarchs are starting to realize that all the"stuff" they've been stirring up in the ME and elsewhere might just end up back home, eh? So, "fighting over there so we don't have to fight them here" doesn't apply anymore? Ooops…
What is "Homeland Security" going to do, arrest everyone coming into the country from the ME? Are they going to check for anti-America [sic] ideas, as Batshit-crazy Bachman warns?
When "stuff" starts happening in the American street then perhaps the oligarchs will take a few minutes in retrospective about the groundwork they've laid for destructive actions at home…but I wouldn't hold my breath.
No way. Could their plan to topple Assad for no good reason backfire on the US? Hard to believe. Not like it has never happened before…
Of course that doesn't mean that the ivy league morons coming up with policy in DC would ever learn anything from history.
Sound like a repeat of Osama bin laden and the mujahideen.
Isn't this just a continuation of the psychotic Plan for the New American Century (PNAC), written by Kristol, Frum, Kagan and their ilk? Al CIA-da was the front to get this endless war for profit going back on 9/11. Now 13 years on, the bogus, non-sensical 'war on terror' is spreading like wild-fire to every continenent as the elites scramble to keep the mobs fearful and confused long enough to figure a way out of the mess they created. But war-weary and impoverished tax-slaves are angered by the deception and trillions transferred to the elites. The CIA-Mossad trained Qaida fighters will kill on command wherever the elites feel threatened. The training ground is the ME, but the war on terror will end at home, here and abroad.
Maybe this is why China will only accept dead Jihadists back into China .
President Assad will kill 'em all, hopefully. 'Assad must go' was a knee-jerk statement.