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American Authorities Fear Terror Networks Already in US

• http://www.voanews.com, Jeff Seldi

Heightening the concern, these complex webs of connections and support seem to span several years and often cut across the ideological lines that delineate one terror group from another.

"Increasingly, the FBI's had a lot of these," according to a law enforcement official familiar with one of the more recent cases. "I think it is going on nationally."

The official, speaking to VOA on condition of anonymity, also said it was clear that "a lot of this predated ISIL," using an acronym for the Islamic State terror group.

'Disrupting networks'

Concern has reached all the way to the White House. After a meeting with national security officials late Thursday at the Pentagon, President Barack Obama said, "It's conceivable that there are some networks here [in the U.S.] that could be activated."

"We have to do a better job of disrupting networks," he added.

Yet former counterterror officials warn that doing so promises to be difficult, because what holds these networks together cannot be undone simply by trying to dismantle a single terror group.


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