By Amy Sherman, Charles Rabin and Patricia Mazzei
The young American suicide bomber (click here) who blew up a truck he was driving in Syria last weekend previously lived in Fort Pierce, law enforcement sources told the Miami Herald on Friday.
The man, in his 20s and believed to have been the first American suicide bomber in Syria, was identified late Friday by the New York Times as Moner Mohammad Abusalha. He had previously been identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Hurayra al Ameriki, or Abu Hurayra the American. It’s unclear when he traveled to Syria or for how long before that he was in Fort Pierce, which is about 130 miles north of Miami.
Law enforcement officials were speaking Friday with the man’s family and friends — some of them elsewhere in Florida — and tracing his movements, including his online activity, in the U.S. before he left for Syria. Federal authorities are investigating whether he was recruited or radicalized online....
...“There is going to be a diaspora out of Syria at some point,” Comey said, “and we are determined not to let lines get drawn between Syria today and a future 9/11.”...
He had no right to return. The so called diaspora only exists in theory, there is already laws that provide for the exile of citizens found to have alienated themselves from their citizenship. The FBI should bring this reality to the legislature and the Executive Branch to be sure there is a clear understanding these people are no longer of American citizenship. Basically, no falling through the cracks.
"Although a person's enlistment (click here) in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it could subject him or her to Section 349(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(3)] which provides for loss of U.S. nationality if an American voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship enters or serves in foreign armed forces engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer."
The reality is, the USA does not have to accept the hostile actions of a natural born citizens or anyone else as if they have a right to carry out violence at home or abroad. This act of violence is not murder, it was an act of terrorism. It is a foregone conclusion terrorism includes suicide bombers.
The shadow was cast to the idea when Anwar al Awlaki was an estranged American. He never attacked anyone directly, but, he did carry out an act of war against the USA when he mentored another American to killing soldiers within the sovereign USA. To that end he could be considered a conspirator to the deaths and was considered exiled from the country. It was very bizarre though for his son to be murdered. The son had no connection to violence or conspiracy.
