FBI Tracks 1,000 IS Suspects in US 24 Hrs. a Day; At Least a Dozen Agents Watching Each IS Savage

Hundreds of FBI agents did not enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner with their families yesterday, because they were ensuring that the U.S. would not be attacked -- as Paris was on November 13 -- by Islamic State (IS) radical terrorists. The FBI has about 1,000 active Islamic State probes inside the U.S., and new reports have revealed that at least 48 of those suspects are considered to be so high-risk that the bureau has deployed elite surveillance teams and the latest equipment to track them, the Washington Times website reports today (November 27, 2015).

The squads -- known as mobile surveillance teams or MSTs -- are following the men and women, who are believed to be Islamic radicals, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in case they plan to commit acts of terrorism.

Republican Sen. Dan Coats -- who sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence -- would not comment on the specific details of the surveillance or the suspects, but admitted that the around-the-clock tracking is an indispensable commitment for the FBI.

"The FBI together with law enforcement agencies across the country are engaged in this. It takes enormous amounts of manpower to do this on a 24-7 basis. It takes enormous amounts of money to do this," Sen. Coats said. At least a dozen FBI agents are assigned to each of the approximate 1,000 U.S. terrorist probes.