ISIS exploits social media to make inroads in U.S.
Story highlights Officials are concerned about plots from growing number of U.S.-based ISIS sympathizers ISIS uses social media as well as encrypted online communications to spread message Assistant Attorney General: "What we're seeing is unprecedented" CNN — Hours before his fatal encounter with anti-terrorism officers, Usaamah Rahim told an associate he was switching from plans to behead a conservative blogger to assaults on the “boys in blue.” Rahim, who officials believe was radicalized by ISIS, referred to his planned act of jihad against police officers in coded language – “going on vacation,” he said, according to an FBI affidavit. “The foreign terrorist now has direct access into the United States like never before,” Michael Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, told the House Homeland Security Committee this week. Opinion: How ISIS recruiters win in the West ‘Lone actor attack’ ISIS recruitment efforts have become more difficult to detect because of encrypted “dark space” communication, officials said. “In other words, they believe that they can provide them everything that they will need to undertake some kind of lone actor attack.” In January, the New York Police Department and other law enforcement agencies responded to a threat from ISIS after the re-released of a September 2014 online message and video urging followers to “rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers and civilians.” The threat named the United States, France, Australia and Canada as targets.
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