Homeland Warns of ISIS Retaliation in US by Sympathizers  Aug 22, 2014    By MIKE LEVINE

Members of a Federal Bureau of Investigation SWAT team are seen as they walk to enter a mall during an FBI field training exercise at the Landmark Mall on May 2, 2014 in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Federal authorities today urged law enforcement across the country to be alert for possible attacks

inside the United States in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic group ISIS, the brutal terrorist group that beheaded American journalist James Foley and has seized vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.

In a joint bulletin issued to local, state and federal law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI said that while they are “unaware of any specific, credible threats against the Homeland” and find most threats to the U.S. homeland by supporters of ISIS “not credible,” they cannot rule out attacks in the United States from sympathizers radicalized by the group’s online propaganda.

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