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Since the United States was attacked on 9/11, more than 2.3 million Americans have volunteered to go overseas to combat terror. But according to a new investigative report issued Wednesday by the Republican staff of the House Homeland Security Committee, overseas jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq have plenty of company when it comes to trying to kill American soldiers.
According to the report, the Defense Department considers the U.S. homeland to be "the most dangerous place for a G.I. outside of foreign warzones," and the top threat faced by American soldiers at home "is from violent Islamist extremists." These radicals are penetrating U.S. defenses by enlisting in the U.S. armed forces.
"A significant and growing number of military personnel, such as alleged Fort Hood mass murderer Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, pose a serious danger to their brothers and sisters in arms who wear the same uniform," the report concluded. U.S. authorities have detected "at least 33 threats, plots and strikes against U.S. military communities since 9/11." Seventy percent of these plots against military targets have occurred since 2009.