US: American fighters in Syria a security risk

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30-11-2013 | 11:28
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US: American fighters in Syria a security risk
              
Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaeda-linked militant groups and return to the US as battle-hardened security risks.          

The State Department says it has no estimates of how many Americans have taken up weapons in the 3-year-old war that has killed more than 100,000 people. But two sets of London-based analysts put the number of Americans among the al-Qaeda-linked fighters at a couple dozen.            

A Pakistan-born North Carolina man arrested on his way to Lebanon has become the third US resident this year charged with planning to fight beside Jabhat al-Nusrah. The US considers the radical Islamic organization a foreign terrorist group.  The group opposes Syrian leader Bashar Assad.           


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