Islamic State Calls for Killings of 100 U.S. Military Personnel—On U.S. Soil
03/22/2015
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When I was with the Texas Army National Guard training to go to Iraq, we were told that "we have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

But thanks to our immigration policy, a whole lot of "them" are already "over here" and we're getting more and more of them.

The  Islamic State is taking things to the next logical step: calling on its people  residing on U.S. soil to  attack  U.S. military personnel.

The New York Times reports that

In a new online threat to American military personnel, the Islamic State has called on its members and sympathizers in the United States to kill 100 service members whose names, photos and purported addresses it posted on a website.   The group said that the personnel had participated in efforts to defeat it in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere.   Defense Department and F.B.I. officials said that they were aware of the website and were investigating the posting.

It does not appear that the information had been hacked from government servers. One Defense Department official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that most of the information could be found in public records, residential address search sites and social media.  The officials said the list appears to be drawn from personnel who have appeared in news articles about airstrikes on the militant group.  Some of the names also appear to be drawn from the Defense Department’s own official reports on the campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS  and ISIL.

But the list also included armed services personnel and others in the United States or elsewhere who have had nothing to do with the bombing campaigns, officials said....

American officials have grudgingly acknowledged the cleverness with which the Islamic State has used the Internet, in particular social media. The posting of military personnel includes names, photographs and other information neatly formatted.

“With the huge amount of data we have from various different servers and databases, we have decided to leak 100 addresses so that our brothers in America can deal with you,” the Islamic State’s so-called Hacking Division said in the web posting.

It added: “And now we have made it easy for you by giving you addresses, all you need to do is take the final step, so what are you waiting for?”

ISIS Urges Sympathizers to Kill U.S. Service Members It Identifies on Website, by Michael S. Schmidt and Helene Cooper, March 21st, 2015. Emphases added.

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