On September 29, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee released a bi-partisan “Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel.”  This report includes a list of American “foreign fighter aspirants and recruits,” in Appendix II of the report, on pages 58-59.  Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has excepted the original alphabetically sorted list from the original Adobe Acrobat PDF format file, into Microsoft Excel, and sorted the list of 58 names by state.

We have provided the results of these American recruits (in this report) and listed them by state.  We do not believe this is the entire listing of all ISIS recruits, but is a subset of ISIS American recruits whose cases are so well-publicized that the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee felt it was appropriate to list their names in this public listing.  We are confident the actual listing is significantly larger and widespread than this listing.  However, in this list of 58 American foreign fighter recruits, which includes ISIS recruits as well as recruits to other organizations.

It does show that foreign fighter recruits in 19 states, ages from 15 to 44 years old, the majority male (49) but also including females (9), and the largest concentrations in California (6) and Minnesota (15).  States represented in this listing of American foreign fighter recruits include: Alabama (1), Arizona (1), California (6),  Colorado (4), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Illinois (3), Massachusetts (1), Michigan (1), Minnesota (15), Missouri (1), Mississippi (2), North Carolina (3), New Jersey (3), New York (4),  Ohio (2), Pennsylvania (2), Texas (4), Wisconsin (1).

From the individuals in this table, it shows 58 Americans, and of those 50 are ISIS-related, and the remaining eight are Al-Qaeda affiliates.  Of the 58, nine are women, and of those nine, eight are ISIS-related.  So the overwhelming majority are related to ISIS.  From the individuals listed in this table, it shows ISIS in Alabama, California,  Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York,  Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin.

This short list is simply one of accused “foreign fighters,” but does not include many others.  For example, R.E.A.L. is well aware of other high-profile cases which inexplicably are not on this list (perhaps because they weren’t considered enough of a “foreign fighter), whose goal is primarily to conduct ISIS terrorist attacks WITHIN the United States, such as our report on Cincinnati, Ohio American ISIS terrorist Christopher Cornell, who plotted a mass murder attack on the U.S. Capitol and also confessed to a plot against the Israeli Embassy.

The challenge remains that the American people need a CENTRAL REPOSITORY or report of the threat of ISIS terrorists to and from the U.S. homeland, which provides updates on the status of this struggle.  But this does not seem to be a political priority for too many in the U.S. Government.  The American people should expect more than individually hunting down random news reports to understand the status and progress of our national and homeland security, whether it is politically convenient for some leaders or not.  We urge responsible leaders to take this to heart.

Furthermore, the September 29, 2015 Homeland Security Committee indicates that the relatively few American ISIS that are arrested represent just a small fraction of American ISIS who successfully reach the Middle East for training and/or terrorist activity.  The report also states that “Intelligence officials estimate more than 250 Americans have tried or succeeded in getting to Syria and Iraq to fight with militant groups. This includes individuals who were stopped before traveling, who made it to the conflict zone and are still there, who were killed, and others who have come back. Some have been arrested on terror charges, though most have not. Americans are being recruited in growing numbers and continue to attempt to migrate to jihadist battlefields in Syria and beyond, posing a serious counterterrorism challenge for the United States.” (page 15).  The report also states “The majority of aspiring foreign fighters have managed to make it out of the United States without being stopped. Of the 250-plus Americans who have joined or tried to join extremists in Syria and Iraq, we were able to identify only 28 cases in which U.S. authorities apprehended suspects before they departed for the Middle East.”‘

So when you look at the numbers, essentially, almost 90 percent of Americans are making it to the Middle East to join ISIS or other terrorist organizations.

Of the 58 representative recent “foreign fighters,” in the U.S. Congressional report, R.E.A.L. has taken this report and added additional information on Affiliation, Status, and Link (hyperlink for more information.)  This custom version of this report was generated by R.E.A.L. in Microsoft Excel, and is available for distribution in MS Excel format (email us at usa@realcourage.org).

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) provides more on ISIS recruits in America on our “American ISIS” series of reports.  (UPDATE Note: on December 1, 2015 – the George Washington University Program on Extremism issued a report “ISIS in America” which supports many of these points and provides other information.)

Name	Age	Gender	State	Affiliation	Status	Link
Hoda Muthana	20	F	AL	ISIS	20 yo Woman Went to Syria to Join ISIS Terror Group	http://bit.ly/fto-034
Eric Harroun	30	M	AZ	AQ	Died of Drug Overdose	http://bit.ly/fto-026
Adam Dandach	20	M	CA	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-010A
Douglas McArthur McCain	33	M	CA	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-025
Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati	24	M	CA	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-039
Muhanad Badawi	24	M	CA	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-045
Nader Elhuzayel	24	M	CA	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-045
Nicholas Teausant	20	M	CA	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-047
Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen	24	M	CA	AQ	Sentenced to 13 Years Prison for Terrorist Crimes aka Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum	http://bit.ly/fto-054
Colorado Teenager #1	15	F	CO	ISIS	Questioned and Released	http://bit.ly/fto-021
Colorado Teenager #2	15	F	CO	ISIS	Questioned and Released	http://bit.ly/fto-021
Colorado Teenager #3	17	F	CO	ISIS	Questioned and Released	http://bit.ly/fto-021
Shannon Maureen Conley	19	F	CO	ISIS	Sentenced to 4 Years Prison for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-053
Moner Abu-Salha	22	M	FL	AQ-Al-Nusrah Front	Died in Suicide Bombing Terrorist Attack May 2014	http://bit.ly/fto-043
Leon Nathan Davis	37	M	GA	ISIS	Sentenced to 15 Years Prison for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-037A
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi	21	M	IL	AQ – Jabhat al-Nusra	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-001
Hasan Edmonds	22	M	IL	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes – Plot Crimes Attack to Paris	http://bit.ly/fto-033
Mohammad Hamzah Khan	19	M	IL	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-041
Ahmad Abousamra	32	M	MA	ISIS	Reported Dead – Last Seen in Syria on FBI Most Wanted List	http://bit.ly/fto-012
Nicole Lynn Mansfield	33	F	MI	AQ	Reportedly died in fighting in Syria	http://bit.ly/fto-048
“H.M.”		M	MN	ISIS	At Large – Believed in Syria	http://bit.ly/fto-028
Abdi Nur	20	M	MN	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-002
Abdirahmaan Muhumed	29	M	MN	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-004
Abdirahman Yasin Daud	21	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-005
Abdullahi Yusuf	18	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Awaiting Sentence for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-008
Adnan Abdihamid Farah	19	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-011
Guled Ali Omar	20	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-027
Hamza Naj Ahmed	19	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-029
Hanad Abdullahi Mohallim	18	M	MN	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-030A
Hanad Mustafe Musse	19	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-032
Mohamed Abdihamid Farah	21	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-040
Mohamud Mohamed Mohamud	20	M	MN	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-042
Yusra Ismail	20	F	MN	ISIS	At Large – Believed in Syria	http://bit.ly/fto-056
Yusuf Jama	21	M	MN	ISIS	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-057
Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman	19	M	MN	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-058
Abdullah Ramo Pazara		M	MO	ISIS	Assumed Killed in Syria – Bosnian Native refugee to USA	http://bit.ly/fto-006
Jaelyn Delshaun Young	20	F	MS	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes – Plot to Join ISIS	http://bit.ly/fto-035
Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla	22	M	MS	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-044
Akba Jihad Jordan	22	M	NC	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-013
Avin Marsalis Brown	21	M	NC	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-018
Basit Javed Sheikh	29	M	NC	AQ-Al-Nusrah Front	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-019
Donald Ray Morgan	44	M	NC	ISIS	Sentenced to 20 Years Prison for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-024
Nader Saadeh	20	M	NJ	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-046
Samuel Rahamin Topaz	21	M	NJ	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-051
Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh	47	M	NJ	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes – USAF Veteran	http://bit.ly/fto-055
Abdurasul Juraboev	23	M	NY	ISIS	In Custody – Pled Guilty to Terror Plot – Resident from Uzbekistan planned Coney Island Plot	http://bit.ly/fto-010
Akhror Saidakhmetov	19	M	NY	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-014
Arafat Nagi	44	M	NY	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-016
Nihad Rosic	26	M	NY	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes aka Yahya AbuAyesha Mudzahid	http://bit.ly/fto-049
Abdifatah Aden		M	OH	AQ-Al-Nusrah Front	Reported Dead	http://bit.ly/fto-003
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud	23	M	OH	AQ-Al-Nusrah Front	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes – Plot Against US Base	http://bit.ly/fto-004A
Amir Farouk Ibrahim	32	M	PA	ISIS	Pittsburgh Man Reported Dead in Syria	http://bit.ly/fto-015
Keonna Thomas	30	F	PA	ISIS	In Custody Indicted for Terrorist Crimes – aka Fatayat Al Khilafah	http://bit.ly/fto-037
“S.R.G.”		M	TX	ISIS	Reportedly working with ISIS in Syria	http://bit.ly/fto-050
Asher Abid Khan	20	M	TX	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-017
Bilal Abood	37	M	TX	ISIS	Pleaded Guilty to Terrorism	http://bit.ly/fto-020
Michael Wolfe	23	M	TX	ISIS	Sentenced to 7 Years Prison for Terrorist Crimes	http://bit.ly/fto-038
Joshua Van Haften	34	M	WI	ISIS	In Custody Charged with Terrorist Crimes – Plot to Join ISIS	http://bit.ly/fto-036

As always, any individuals not convicted, but charged with crimes are always to be considered innocent until proven guilty.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) believes that our commitment for human rights must also include a commitment to the halt of anti-human rights terrorist organizations, with a goal to undermine human rights, spread hatred and intolerance, and to promote violence and death.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) stands in support of our universal human rights for all, and we stand in defiance against those, including terrorist and hate groups, which seek to attack such universal human rights, dignity, and security for all.

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