America's enemies within: How nearly SEVENTY have been arrested in America over ISIS plots in the last 18 months - including refugees who had been given safe haven but 'turned to terror'
- Federal and local law enforcement agencies have made dozens of arrests of men and women suspected of ISIS involvement
- Analysis shows that they include refugees who entered the United States as refugees
- Increasing pressure from Republicans not to accept refugees from Syria on scale demanded by White House
- Ted Cruz plans to introduce legislation forbidding refugee status to Syrian Muslims and moves also under way to defund settling refugees
- For full news coverage of the Islamic State visit www.dailymail.co.uk/isis
US authorities have charged at least 66 men and women with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil – including a handful of refugees, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
The
terror group has set its sights on Washington, D.C. as it vows to
further infiltrate the West and ramp up its blood-soaked offensive.
President Obama insists that 'slamming the door' on Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS would be a betrayal of American values.
But
34 governors are refusing to take in any more, in case jihadi fighters
slip into their states and repeat the carnage of Paris.
Analysis
by Daily Mail Online reveals that a handful of foiled plots have
already involved immigrants accused of harboring sympathy for ISIS.
The
threat also comes from within, with American teenagers and Islamic
converts among those seduced by the group’s torrent of chilling online
propaganda.
They
include a U.S. Air Force veteran accused of waging war on the country
he once served and a National Guard soldier who allegedly plotted to gun
down his own colleagues.
Others
are seemingly ordinary American citizens, including a young nurse, a
pizza parlor boss and schoolgirls tricked into becoming shrouded ISIS
brides.
Some
have conspired to travel or send friends abroad to link up with
fundamentalist fighters while others have planned for jihad closer to
home - with Capitol Hill among the targets for a foiled bombing raid.
The
incidents detailed here are among dozens of alleged disrupted by police
and federal agents since ISIS began to rise from the flames of the
Syrian civil war. The earliest arrest was 18 months ago.
They include:
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