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| 2 Arrested In US Over Links To ISIS |
| 2 Arrested In US Over Links To ISIS
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-January-2016
12:22:8 PM |
| US authorities said two people with ties to the ISIS are due in court today in California and Texas, including a refugee from Syria accused of returning there to fight alongside ISIS.
The arrests come amid heightened security in the United States following last month's assault by a radicalized Muslim couple in California that left 14 people dead and the November terror attacks in Paris.
The attacks added to pressure for more scrutiny of refugees from war-ravaged Syria.
Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, an Iraqi-born Palestinian arrested Thursday who came to the United States from Syria as a refugee in 2012, traveled to Syria the following year where he fought for various terror groups, according to a criminal complaint.
One of those groups was Al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam (Partisans of Islam), which previously operated under its own banner in Iraq and Syria.
Listed as a terrorist organization by the United Nations and the US, its Iraqi faction has since merged with the ISIS, though some of its Syrian fighters rejected ISIS.
US Attorney Benjamin Wagner was careful to stress that "while (Jayab) represented a potential safety threat, there is no indication that he planned any acts of terrorism in this country."
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