{"id":1452,"date":"2015-03-13T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:46:53","slug":"us-general-says-100-isis-recruits-could-enter-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-general-says-100-isis-recruits-could-enter-america\/","title":{"rendered":"US General says 100 ISIS recruits could enter America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A top American general says that 100 would-be militants have already left small Caribbean countries to fight with Islamic State extremists in Syria \u2013 and could potentially get across the US border when they return home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, chief of the US Southern Command, made the remarks at a Pentagon briefing with reporters on Thursday. He said that small Caribbean nations \u2013 such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname \u2013 as well as Venezuela are concerned about the militants returning home to conduct terror operations because they don&#8217;t have the ability to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The general said that while the number of people leaving to fight alongside militants is small, the US takes for granted a functioning legal justice system, the FBI, and layers of clean police officers \u2013 which may absent in some of the Caribbean countries. When recruits return, he said, they can\u2019t be monitored or checked. Once back in their country, Kelly said the recruits could travel freely between nations and potentially get across the border into America.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?324803-1\/defense-department-briefing-general-john-kelly\" width=\"512\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<em>Everyone is concerned, of course, if they come home,&#8221;<\/em> said Kelly, adding that in Syria the recruits would<em>&#8220;get good at killing and pick up some real job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings and things like that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kelly told reporters the sophistication of, and the amount of movement going through, the smuggling networks through the isthmus and Mexico overwhelms \u201c<em>our ability to stop everything<\/em>\u201d via the US Border Control and the Department of Homeland Security. But he said he has seen no indication of a direct threat or scheme to attack the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<em>No one checks their passports,<\/em>\u201d the general said. <em>\u201cNo one, you know, they don\u2019t go through metal detectors. No one cares why they\u2019re coming. They just ride the network.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 15,000 foreign fighters have traveled into the Middle East to join the Islamic State, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In remarks made before the Senate Armed Services Committee in advance of the committee\u2019s review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2016, Kelly described the effects that a return of sequestration would have on his command.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<em>In Latin American, in Southern Command [sequestration] will be, simply put, a castastrophe. It will essentially put me out of business,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Kelly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kelly said his area of responsibility is in narco-terrorism, human smuggling, and the spreading influence of criminal networks which are threats to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top American general says that 100 would-be militants have already left small Caribbean countries to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,1,125],"tags":[358,6,14,15,113,7,19],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-news","category-united-states","tag-americas","tag-defense","tag-isis","tag-militants","tag-security","tag-u-s","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Marine-Gen-John-Kelly.jpg?fit=640%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}