Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today by Heather J. Williams, Nathan Chandler & Eric Robinson

Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today

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  • Genre Political Science
  • Publisher Rand Corporation
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  • Size 5.74 MB
  • Length 97 Pages

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has recently been more successful than al Qaeda in gaining U.S. terrorist recruits. The authors undertake a demographic profile of individuals drawn to foreign terrorist organizations and find that the affiliates average terrorists recruited by ISIL is younger, less educated, and more likely to be African American/black or Caucasian/white and a U.S.-born citizen.

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