ISIS militants ‘with US passports’ –‘The seeds of 9/11s are being planted all over Iraq and Syria’
16 Jun 2014 There is something particularly concerning about the “masked, sociopathic murderers” who fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), writes former state department official Andrew G Doran for the National Review. Some of them, he says, are Western citizens who have traveled to Syria to fight President Bashar Assad’s government – and have passports or other immigration paperwork that would allow them to return to their home countries whenever they want. In fact, he says, citing the Daily Beast, perhaps a dozen are already in the US.
Cameron says Isis planning attacks in UK
18 Jun 2014 David Cameron tells MPs it is wrong to think that violence in Iraq is “nothing to do with us” because Islamist militants are “planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom”. Referring to a series of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis), the prime minister said the group hoped to establish “some sort of extreme Islamist regime in the middle of Iraq”, which would affect Britain.