聖戰組織或已回歸

　　11月20日VOA聽力：聖戰構造或已回歸

　　With the wounds still raw from Paris and much ofEurope on edge, there's the question that won't goaway，have more foreign fighters returned to theWest to wreak havoc in the name of the groupknown as Islamic State?

　　In Europe, the challenge is great.

　　You have far greater numbers of people who have gone over to Syria, greater numbers ofpeople have returned, and more developed jihadist networks that they’re drawing upon.

　　Experts say there's no single psychological profile for who is likely to become a foreign fighter,let alone come back as part of a sleeper cell.

　　What is known the average male Western foreign fighter is 25.

　　The typical female is 21.

　　One-third were active in online jihadist forums, and more than 80 percent have joined IslamicState.

　　The attraction is not as much as it was at the beginning.

　　For sure we’ve seen this through intelligence.

　　But they may be still attractive to some people.

　　U.S. intelligence officials worry that attraction is still substantial and combined with IslamicState's flexibility could help the group pull off more attacks in the West.

　　And there's precedence, the brothers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris inJanuary had ties to al-Qaida, but were also connected to Ahmedy Coulibaly, who died in ashootout at a French grocery store having pledged himself to Islamic State.

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