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Jessica Zuckerman, Steven P. Bucci, and James Jay Carafano, “60 Terrorist Plots since 9/11: Continued Lessons in Domestic Counterterrorism,” Special Report #137 on Terrorism, The Heritage Foundation, July 22, 2013,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/07/60-terrorist-plots-since-911-continued-lessons-in-domestic-counterterrorism.

17
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Eric Owens, “Don’t Be Alarmed but Some Arab Guy Walked into a High School Asking ‘Suspicious’ Questions,” Daily Caller, October 2, 2014,
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/02/dont-be-alarmed-but-some-arab-guy-walked-into-a-high-school-asking-suspicious-questions/
.

18
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Ibid.

19
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Meg Wagner, “Australian Police Kill Teen Terror Suspect Who Stabbed Officers, Foiling Plot to Behead Cops, Wrap Bodies in ISIS Flag: Officials,”
New York Daily News,
September 24, 2014,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/australian-police-kill-teen-terror-suspect-wanted-behead-cops-report-article-1.1950841
.

20
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AP and AFP, “IS Ordered ‘Demonstration Killings’ in Australia, Says PM,” Times of Israel, September 18, 2014,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-pm-is-ordered-demonstration-killings-in-country/
.

21
.
    
Stewart Bell, “Soldier Dies after Being Run Down in Suspected Terror Attack Near Montreal: Martin ‘Ahmad’ Rouleau Killed after High-Speed Chase,”
National Post
(Canada), October 20, 2014,
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/20/driver-who-ran-into-canadian-soldiers-near-montreal-was-known-to-counter-terrorism-officials-rcmp/
.

22
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Tristin Hopper, “What Exactly Happened When Martin Rouleau Was Lying in Wait to Run CF Members Over?,”
National Post
(Canada), October 21, 2014,
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/21/what-exactly-happened-when-martin-rouleau-was-lying-in-wait-to-run-cf-members-over/
.

23
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Jon Williams et al., “Canada PM Calls Parliament Shooting a ‘Terrorist’ Act,” ABC News, October 22, 2014,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/canada-pm-calls-parliament-shooting-terrorist-act/story?id=26372013&page=2
.

24
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Les Whittington and Joanna Smith, “Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of Hamilton Identified as Soldier Gunned Down in Ottawa Attack,”
Toronto Star,
October 22, 2014,
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/22/one_person_shot_at_war_memorial_in_ottawa_police_say.html
.

25
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Brandon Darby, “Exclusive Leak: FBI Report Warns of Potential Homegrown ISIS Attacks against Law Enforcement in US,” Breitbart, October 23, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/23/FBI-Report-Warns-of-Potential-Homegrown-ISIS-Attacks-Against-Law-Enforcement-in-US
.

26
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Jonathan Dienst, “Bratton: Hatchet Attack on Cops Was a Lone Wolf ‘Act of Terror,’” NBC New York, October 29, 2014,
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Motive-Hatchet-Attack-NYPD-Zale-Thompson-Ax-Queens-Motive-280312192.html
.

27
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Olivier Guitta, “Stopping the Lone Jihadi,”
National Post
(Canada), October 30, 2014,
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/30/olivier-guitta-stopping-the-lone-jihadi/
.

28
.
    
Ashley Fantz, Pamela Brown, and Aaron Cooper, “Police: Seattle Man’s Hatred of U.S. Foreign Policy Motivated Killings,” CNN, September 16, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/justice/ali-brown-charges-killing-spree/
.

29
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Fred Fleitz, “The Tevlin Murder: Another Sign of the President’s Denial of the Radical Islamist/Sharia Threat,” Center for Security Policy, September 15, 2014,
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2014/09/15/the-tevlin-murder-another-sign-of-the-presidents-denial-of-the-radical-islamistsharia-threat/
.

30
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“Yemeni al-Qaeda Claims French Magazine Attack,” Al Jazeera, January 10, 2015,
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2015/01/yemeni-al-qaeda-claims-french-magazine-attack-201511073656841867.html
.

31
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Simon Tomlinson, “More Questions Emerge over How Paris Jihadists Were Able to Operate amid Revelations Deli Killer Was on U.S. Watch List,”
Daily Mail,
January 13, 2015,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2907921/Further-questions-raised-Paris-jihadists-able-operate-s-revealed-Paris-deli-killer-U-S-terror-watch-list.html
.

32
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Rose Troup Buchanan, “Amedy Coulibaly Shot Dead by French Police in Hail of 40 Bullets during Paris Kosher Market Siege,”
Independent
(UK), January 12, 2015,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amedy-coulibaly-shot-dead-by-french-police-in-hail-of-40-bullets-during-paris-kosher-market-siege-9971694.html
.

33
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Julian Borger, “Paris Gunman Amedy Coulibaly Declared Allegiance to ISIS,”
Guardian,
January 11, 2015,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-gunman-amedy-coulibaly-allegiance-isis
; Rowan Scarborough, “Islamic State Launches Social Media Campaign to Unleash ‘City Wolves,’”
Washington Times,
January 13, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/13/islamic-state-launches-new-jihad-kill-westerners-h/
.

34
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Dan Bilefsky and Maïa de la Baume, “In a Video, ISIS Fighters Call for Attacks in France,”
New York Times,
November 20, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/world/europe/video-shows-french-isis-fighters-calling-for-attacks-in-france.html?_r=1
; Rowan Scarborough, “Islamic State Launches Social Media Campaign to Unleash ‘City Wolves,’”
Washington Times,
January 13, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/13/islamic-state-launches-new-jihad-kill-westerners-h/
.

35
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Paul Cruickshank, Mariano Castillo, and Catherine E. Shoichet, “Belgian Operation Thwarted ‘Major Terrorist Attacks,’ Kills 2 Suspects,” CNN, January 15, 2015,
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/world/belgium-anti-terror-operation/
.

36
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Patrick Poole, “‘Lone Wolf’ or ‘Known Wolf’? The Ongoing Counter-Terrorism Failure: An Extensive Report Shows How U.S. Law Enforcement Missteps and Dangerous Policies Keep Getting People Killed,” PJ Media, October 24, 2014,
http://pjmedia.com/blog/lone-wolf-or-known-wolf-the-ongoing-counter-terrorism-failure/?singlepage=true
.

37
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Neil Munro, “Border Meltdown: Obama Delivering 290,000 Illegals to U.S. Homes,” Daily Caller, July 5, 2014,
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/05/border-meltdown-obama-delivering-290000-illegals-to-u-s-homes/
.

38
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Edwin Mora, “474 Illegals from Terrorism-Linked Countries Apprehended in 2014 Alone,” Breitbart, September 19, 2014,
http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/18/474-Aliens-From-Terrorism-Linked-Countries-Apprehended-in-2014-Alone
.

39
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Eric Bradner, “Top Homeland Security Official: ISIS Hasn’t Crossed Border into U.S.,” CNN, October 8, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/politics/jeh-johnson-duncan-hunter-isis/
.

40
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Rebecca Kaplan, “Homeland Security Says Terrorists Haven’t Crossed U.S.-Mexico Border,” CBS News, October 9, 2014,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-says-terrorists-havent-crossed-us-mexico-border/
.

41
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“GOP Rep: ISIS, Mexican Drug Cartels Are ‘Talking to Each Other,’” Breitbart, August 20, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/20/GOP-Rep-ISIS-and-Mexican-Drug-Cartels-Are-Talking-to-Each-Other
.

42
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Ashley Killough, “Rick Perry: It’s Possible ISIS Has Crossed Southern Border,” CNN, August 21, 2014,
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/21/rick-perry-its-possible-isis-has-crossed-southern-border/
.

43
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Terence P. Jeffrey, “Joint Chiefs Chair, ‘Open Borders and Immigration Issues’ Make ISIL ‘Immediate Threat,’” CNS News, August 22, 2014,
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/joint-chiefs-chair-open-borders-and-immigration-issues-make-isil
.

44
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“EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Uses Mexican Drug Routes into U.S.,”
Washington Times,
March 27, 2009,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/?page=all
.

45
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Jessica Vaughan, “ICE Enforcement Collapses Further in 2014,” Center for Immigration Studies, October 2014,
http://cis.org/ICE-Enforcement-Collapses-Further-2014
.

46
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Fairchild, e-mail interview.

47
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Dale Hurd, “Chemical ISIS? New Photos Tell Disturbing Story,” CBN News, October 15, 2014,
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/October/Photos-Suggest-ISIS-May-Have-Chemical-Weapons/
.

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Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa, “Found: The Islamic State’s Terror Laptop of Doom: Buried in a Dell Computer Captured in Syria Are Lessons for Making Bubonic Plague Bombs and Missives on Using Weapons of Mass Destruction,”
Foreign Policy,
August 28, 2014,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/28/found_the_islamic_state_terror_laptop_of_doom_bubonic_plague_weapons_of_mass_destruction_exclusive
.

CHAPTER FOUR: HEARTLAND HORROR: THE AMERICAN RECRUITS

1
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Jenny Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest for Jihad Baffles Neighbors,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 25, 2014,
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-high-school-jihadi-20140726-story.html#page=1
.

2
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Ibid.

3
.
      
Ibid.

4
.
      
Kirk Mitchell, “Arvada Teen Jihadist ‘Wannabe’ Pleads Guilty to Terror Charge,”
Denver Post,
September 10, 2014,
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26504683/arvada-jihadist-wannabe-set-plead-guilty-terror-charge
.

5
.
      
Anna Nemtsova, “Inside the Minds of Russia’s Black Widows,” Daily Beast, August 26, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/08/26/a-mother-s-despair-chechen-and-dagestani-mothers-radicalize-after-losing-sons-and-husbands-to-war-with-russia.html
.

6
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Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest.”

7
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Bill Chappell, “4-Year Prison Term for Colorado Woman over Plot to Join ISIS,” NPR, January 23, 2015,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/23/379466005/4-year-prison-term-for-colorado-woman-over-plot-to-join-isis
.

8
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Mitchell, “Arvada Teen Jihadist ‘Wannabe.’”

9
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Associated Press, “Denver Teens Encouraged to Join ISIS by ‘Online Predator’, Friends Say,”
Guardian,
October 23, 2014,
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/23/denver-teens-isis-online-predator
.

10
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Alessandria Masi, “ISIS Female Recruitment Campaign Could Have Inspired Three American Teenage Girls to Join ISIS in Syria,” International Business Times, October 21, 2014,
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-female-recruitment-campaign-could-have-inspired-three-american-teenage-girls-join-1709185
.

11
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Alistair Bell, “Female Jihadists from U.S. Heartland Join ISIS,” Reuters/Al Arabiya News, September 15, 2014,
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/15/Female-jihadists-from-U-S-heartland-join-ISIS.html
.

12
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Bob Fletcher, in interview with the author, September 16, 2014.

13
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Harriet Sherwood et al., “Schoolgirl Jihadis: The Female Islamists Leaving Home to Join ISIS Fighters,”
Guardian,
September 29, 2014,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/schoolgirl-jihadis-female-islamists-leaving-home-join-isis-iraq-syria
.

14
.
    
Ibid.

15
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Natasha Culzac, “ISIS: British Women Led by Aqsa Mahmood ‘Running Sharia Police Unit for Islamic State in Syria,’”
Independent
(UK), September 8, 2014,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-british-women-running-sharia-police-unit-for-islamic-state-in-syria-9717510.html
.

16
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“UK Female Jihadists Run ISIS Sex-Slave Brothels,” Al Arabiya News, September 12, 2014,
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/09/12/UK-female-jihadists-run-ISIS-sex-slave-brothels.html
.

17
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Sherwood et al. “Schoolgirl Jihadis.”

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