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| Islamic State Using Social Media to Win Recruits in US, Says FBI: Report
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-May-2015
8:18:28 AM |
| Amidst a federal investigation into a foiled attack on a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas, FBI Director James Comey has said that the Islamic State is leveraging social media to recruit people in US.
"Hundreds, maybe thousands" of people across the country are receiving recruitment overtures from the terrorist group or directives to attack the US, he told reporters on Thursday, according to USA Today.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIL, is leveraging social media in unprecedented ways through Twitter and other platforms, directing messages to the smart phones of "disturbed people" who could be pushed to launch assaults on US targets, Comey said.
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"It's like the devil sitting on their shoulders, saying 'kill, kill, kill,'" he said amidst a federal investigation into a foiled attack in Garland, Texas, involving two gunmen allegedly sympathetic to Islamic State.
Both the gunmen, identified as Elton Simpson, 30, and Nadir Soofi, 34, were fatally shot by a police officer on Sunday night after the pair's abortive attack on the cartoon contest
Comey said on Thursday that hours before the attempted Garland attack, FBI agents sent a bulletin to local authorities indicating that Simpson, may have been interested in travelling from Phoenix to attend the contest.
The FBI director, according to USA Today, declined to elaborate on why agents alerted Garland authorities to Simpson's possible interest in the local event, though he said there was "no reason to believe he would attack or that he had left" his home in Phoenix
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