EXCLUSIVE: America's enemies within - SIXTY-TWO ISIS attackers and 'plotters' in just a year and more than half of them are immigrants or their children
- Analysis by DailyMail.com reveals that 62 people in America have launched ISIS attacks or been accused of plotting to help terror group
- They are responsible for 64 deaths and at least 121 woundings, including the San Bernardino and Pulse massacres
- Of the attackers and alleged plotters, 21 were immigrants and a further 13 were the children of immigrants
- Thirteen Americans converted and are accused of becoming extremists - including a former cheerleader and senior Boston police officer's son
- Prosecution documents reveal allegations of obsessions with extremist propaganda and a myriad of hate-fueled plans to slaughter U.S. citizens
The growing scale of ISIS activities inside the United States is revealed in a DailyMail.com analysis.
A total of 62 people - overwhelmingly men - have launched attacks or been accused of taking part in the Islamic terror group's activities in just over a year.
The 62 were responsible for 48 attacks or alleged ISIS-inspired activities - from mass stabbings to attempts to send money and munitions to Syria.
The DailyMail.com analysis of public records shows that six ISIS-inspired attackers have died and 54 have been arrested.
The figures also show that 34 of those ISIS attackers and alleged plotters were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
They included six people who came to the U.S. as refugees from countries including Palestine and Somalia.
Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded scores more in his attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando
The number of people taken in as refugees and then accused of turning against the country which gave them sanctuary could be higher, as it was not possible to ascertain exactly how many of the alleged ISIS attackers or plotters entered America.
In total 64 people have been murdered and at least 121 wounded in the U.S. by ISIS-inspired attackers.
They included the 49 dead and 53 wounded of the Orlando nightclub attacks, as well as the 14 killed and 22 hurt by the San Bernardino shooters.
The analysis shows that 13 people linked to ISIS by the federal authorities were the children of immigrants from countries including Palestine and Pakistan.
And at least 13 were Americans who converted to Islam and took up its most extreme form.
They include a former cheerleader and the son of a senior Boston police officer, as well as an immigrant who was not deported after serving a four-year sentence for a firearms crime.
Many of those awaiting trial were caught by the FBI in stings, which the agency says is a crucial way of preventing and disrupting ISIS attacks.
Official documents reveal individuals obsessed with extremist propaganda and a myriad hate-fueled plans to slaughter fellow citizens.
The issue of how to handle the entry of immigrants and refugees has been a hot topic in the 2016 presidential race.
Earlier this month FBI director James Comey warned that as ISIS is purged from its home territory in Syria and Iraq, a 'terrorist diaspora' could spread across the globe.
Here are the 62 people involved in 48 separate terror-related cases in the last year identified by DailyMail.com.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3810273/America-s-enemies-SIXTY-TWO-ISIS-attackers-plotters-just-year-half-immigrants-children.html
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