National Security

Tracing shift from everyday American to jihadis

By NANCY BENACDEB RIECHMANN
Published September 20, 2014 12:38pm ET
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Tracing shift from everyday American to jihadis
In this Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 photo, Mufid Elfgeeh is taken out of Federal Court in Rochester, N.Y. Elfgeeh is accused of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military and others pleaded not guilty Thursday to new federal charges that he tried to aid the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. With foreign fighters from dozens of nations pouring into the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations, U.S. officials are putting new energy into trying to understand what radicalizes people far removed from the fight and into prodding countries around the world to do a better job of keeping them from joining up. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Carlos Ortiz) MAGS OUT; NO SALES | Carlos Ortiz

WASHINGTON (AP) — A college dropout from Florida. A nurse’s aide from Denver. The owner of a pizza-and-wings joint from upstate New York.

Except for their embrace of Islam, there’s no common profile for the 100-plus Americans who have traveled to Syria to join Islamic fighters or are accused of supporting them from the United States.

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