Karen Greenberg was quoted in The New York Times on the arrest of a Bronx man arrested for allegedly trying to join ISIS.
Karen J. Greenberg, the executive director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law, said Mr. Alimehmeti’s desire to fight abroad was intriguing because it raised the question of whether the group’s call for recruits was still resonating.
“This case, in its details, reinforces the trend in ISIS cases: the preference for weapons other than explosives, the importance of social media, the virulence of ISIS videos, a new trend in efforts to avoid detection online and the youth of these individuals in the United States,” she said. “In 2014, this individual was 20, the most frequent age among those indicted on ISIS-related charges in the U.S.”
