of a network trying to get over there and join these militants in syria. now, if their plan did not succeed to join isis they also had plans to carry out terrorist attacks here in this country, perhaps attacking trying to kill the president of the united states or fbi agents and police officers. it s a very serious complaint against these three. and this is a really interesting case in several respects because the fbi and the national security division of the justice department have been looking to see if there are any indications of networks trying to get these people these recruits over to syria. and they haven t found it. this case presents that exact fear that they ve been wondering, they ve been expecting to find. two of these all of these men are residents of the united states. but two of them are citizens of uzbekistan. one is a citizen of kazakhstan. but i take it they were legal residents in the united states do we know that? they are, wolf. and what s interesting, too
british and european security agencies. so it should not be a terrible surprise that something similar is happening here. i suppose once more details of the case come out, we should be pleased that this particular group was prevented from getting there or plotting here in this country. but it is obviously very alarming when you hear the director of the fbi saying every single state in this country has things like this going on. that s quite a lot of plots taking place. and even with the vast resources that the fbi has, you worry that one of them will somehow break through the cracks. and, bob baer the fact that two of these individuals arrested today are from uzbekistan one is from kazakhstan what does that say to you? first of all, we have to consider that uzbekistan has been a center of islamic fundamentalism for a couple of decades now.
well, these are the dumb ones. it s the low-hanging fruit. the guys who haven t figured this out. we do monitor uzbek sites. and that would come to the fbi s attention. it s the ones as i said that stay off these social media sites, that don t blog, that worries the fbi. but in these other 50 states what s going on there? they haven t been able to move but they suspect there are cells, that they ve active and that they re listening to the islamic state, this call for violence against police and against americans. we could go anywhere with this. maybe they thought nobody s paying attention to an uzbek language website that s loyal to isis. guys stand by. bob baer evan perez. more on the breaking news coming up. also coming up unfortunate and destructive, a u.s. official uses some of the strongest language yet to criticize the
to get on a flight out of jfk for turkey with the hope of eventually reaching syria. but the question is how many more of these people are there out there and the fbi director is saying potentially there s a lot? yeah, that s the worrying part. we know that isis has essentially sent out a come one, come all invitation. they ve asked people who are sympathetic to their cause around the world to come to syria, come to iraq to fight there. and they ve also added, if you can t make it here then attack in the countries where you are, particularly we saw this after paris, a call to attack law enforcement specifically. so the fact that these guys one of them anyway was threatening to attack the fbi directly in washington to take a machine gun and go and kill fbi officers that fits in with that sort of clarion call from isis. and there s really no way to stop isis from communicating with people like this thanks to social media, thanks to the internet, they re going to get
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