released by washington university are saying that people are spreading their message on line and vetting people, and identifying about 300 americans are identified with isis, and their strength is narrowed with face-to-face c conrelationsh conrelationships. and in 2015 in the u.s., there have been 56 individual arrested in connection with isis. and now joining me is the author of jihad joe americans who go to war in the name of islam, and so i want to start out with you
the program on extremism and the brookings institution author of jihad joe, americans who go to war in the name of islam. start off with this. what was your reaction, if a woman in her 20s marries a guy sort of a mail order bride, they meet over in the hajj, they get married, come back, they are here a while. after a while they get involved in terrorism. start arming up, they got all kinds of explosives, semi-automatic pistols, these are the facts. how do you put it together? well, there s a lot we don t know about this case yet. we re really getting drips and drabs of information. i think it s premature to figure out what happened. i do think that you know, there does seem to be some connection to isis, nexis to isis here. i think it s probably pretty unlikely this was specifically
people, and identifying about 300 americans are identified with isis, and their strength is narrowed with face-to-face relationships. and in 2015 in the u.s., there have been 56 individual arrested in connection with isis. and now joining me is seamus j.m. burger, the author of jihad joe, americans who go to war in the name of islam, and so i want to start out with you here, jay. if a woman in her 20s marries a guy, a sort of mail order bride and meet over in the hajj in saudi arabia and get married and go to the mecca, and then they come over here and start to arming up, and ordinances and
carried out a suicide bombing in syria against syrian military installation. he went by the name jihad joe. he wanted to do exactly what jihad joe had done. 21st american arrested this year in the united states allegedly trying to work with isis. very disturbing information. a new warning about the terrorist threat here in the united states from isis and al qaeda. ash carter spoke with cnn s erin burnett. she traveled to south korea. tell us how that went. you know wolf it was very interesting, because he had a lot to say about iran about isis and about al qaeda. he talked about isis, how it was a barbaric group of unknown proportions in terms of how it has been able to recruit people. i asked him directly on the key
by an american who goes went by the name jihad joe who carried out a suicide bombing in syria and he looked at that video and said he was inspired to do exactly that here in the united states. very disturbing information. evan, thanks very much for that report. stay with us. i want to bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, this is the 21st isis related arrest here in the united states since the start of this year only two days ago madison, wisconsin man was arrested after flying to turkey to attempt to fight for isis. does this number reflect the growing threat isis poses to the united states? because we have heard from a lot of top u.s. homeland security officials, they are pretty alarmed right now. reporter: it reflects two things. one, it does reflect the draw of isis not just in the u.s. but in other western countries. it s something that u.s. counter terror officials have consistently told me if not the most capability in terms of attack it s th