{"id":38681,"date":"2013-12-02T06:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38681"},"modified":"2013-12-02T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T11:34:47","slug":"a-couple-dozen-americans-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38681","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;couple dozen&#8221; Americans in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/nov\/30\/american-jihad-us-officials-worried-over-number-ci\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that US officials are concerned about the number of Americans who have departed for Syria to take part in the war there. The concern, of course, is that they&#8217;ll return more radicalized than when they left;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State Department says it has no estimates of how many Americans have taken up weapons to fight military units loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in the 3-year-old war that has killed more than 100,000 people. Other estimates \u2014 from an arm of the British defense consultant IHS Jane\u2019s and from experts at a nonprofit think tank in London \u2014 put the number of Americans at a couple dozen. The IHS group says al-Qaeda-linked fighters number about 15,000, with total anti-Assad force at 100,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At a Senate homeland security committee hearing this month, Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., said: \u201cWe know that American citizens as well as Canadian and European nationals have taken up arms in Syria, in Yemen and in Somalia. The threat that these individuals could return home to carry out attacks is real and troubling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, if they went to Syria, they were probably pretty radical in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that US officials are concerned about the number of Americans who have &hellip; <a title=\"A &#8220;couple dozen&#8221; Americans in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38681\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A &#8220;couple dozen&#8221; Americans in Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}