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FBI: Dozen US Citizens Fighting with ISIL Terrorists in Syria

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FBI Director James Comey said he will keep a close eye on any Americans who fight for "ISIL" and then return to the US.

He also talked about the ominous threat of cybercrime in his first major television interview since he became the FBI's top official a year ago.

Comey says he is aware of about "a dozen or so" Americans who have joined "ISIL", but can't discount there may be more. Of the ones he knows, he says he will do everything in his power to monitor them should they return to the US.

"Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport is revoked, is entitled to come back," he tells Pelley. "So someone who has fought with ISIL, with an American passport, wants to come back, we will track them very carefully."

He also said that he would call the terrorist organizations like the al-Nusra Front and ISIL in Syria as a "metastasis of al-Qaeda". "They are both vicious, sort of the inheritors of a lot of the mantle of al-Qaeda and present different threats in a lot of ways."

Also in the interview Sunday, Comey identified cybercrime as the looming threat most Americans are not wary enough about. He added one of his top priorities for the bureau is to improve its capability against such cybercrimes as ID theft and industrial espionage.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website