Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has published stepbystep directions for building that bomb in the latest inspire magazine. Our efforts to confront aqap are significantly diminished with the removal of t