With the wounds still raw from Paris and much of Europe on edge, there’s the question that won’t go away – have more foreign fighters returned to the West to wreak (1) in the name of the group known as Islamic State?In Europe, the challenge is great.
“You have far greater numbers of people who have gone over to Syria, greater numbers of people have returned, and more developed jihadist networks that they’re (2) upon,” said Sterman.
Experts say there’s no single (3) profile for who is likely to become a foreign fighter, let alone come back as part of a (4) cell.
But some patterns are known: the average male Western foreign fighter is 25. The typical female is 21.
One-third were active in online jihadist (5) , and more than 80 percent have joined Islamic State.
“The attraction is not as much as it was at the beginning. For sure we’ve seen this through (6) . But they may be still attractive to some people,” he said.
U.S. intelligence officials worry that attraction is still (7) – and combined with Islamic State’s (8) could help the group pull off more attacks in the West.
And there’s (9) -- the brothers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January had ties to al-Qaida, but were also connected to Ahmedy Coulibaly, who died in a shootout at a French grocery store having (10) himself to Islamic State.
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