FBI Director James Comey said today (May 8, 2015) that Islamic State's (IS) influence is on the rise in the United States. His warning follows the Mohammed cartoon contest attack carried out earlier this week by two gunmen who drove all the way from Arizona to Texas, according to the Christian Broadcast Network website.
Federal agents estimate those two are among hundreds of IS followers in the United States who are now being bombarded on the Internet with calls to take deadly action.
Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi are the Phoenix roommates behind the Texas terror attack and the newest faces of homegrown terrorism.
Comey says young IS recruits like them are being drawn in by the group's slick, online messages of war. During the past year, at least 53 Americans have been charged with trying to travel to Syria to join ranks with IS. But thousands of others living in the United States may be consuming the online "poison."
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