Syria: Terror University for U.S. Gangs

Syria: Terror University for U.S. Gangs

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Two Los Angeles gang members are taking part in the Syria’s civil war, raising security worries on the West Coast

5237083_m featureABC News reports that a video posted recently on YouTube shows two gang-tattooed and camouflaged men, who call themselves “Creeper” and “Wino,” holding AK-47s and saying that they are “in Syria, gangbangin’.”

The video has been posted online a few days ago, but the LAPD says they learnt about the two LA gang members in Syria five weeks ago.

Deputy Chief for Counterterrorism Mike Downing told ABC News Sunday that “My organized crime and gang investigators found it online and on Facebook,” Downing said. “We’re kind of concerned about their recruitment and whatever other associates they have here… We predicted this would happen — the [organized crime and terrorism] convergence. What we’re worried about is the ones we don’t know about here or coming back to the U.S.”

Downing said the two men — one Armenian and the other Latino, neither one a U.S. citizen — are members of a local gang, not radicalized Islamist jihadists. In fact, the two men are fighting as part of a Hezbollah formation to defend the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

iHLS – Israel Homeland Security


Downing said that one, perhaps even both, were deported from the United States some time ago, a fact mentioned on the gangsters’ public social networking posts.

In the video, Wino is shown firing his AK-47 at unseen enemies (or “enemigas,” as he calls them) through a hole in the wall of a destroyed building. Between rounds, he turns to the camera and says: “We’re on the f—king frontline, homie. Front-f—king-line, homie. We don’t give a f—k, dawg.”

According to HLS News Wire close to a hundred Americans went to Syria to take part in the war, all of them – with the apparent exception of the two L.A. gang members – to fight on the side of the Sunni rebels against the Alawite Assad regime.

About fifty of them have already returned to the United States, where they are under FBI monitoring. Some have been questioned, and others are under surveillance.