Texas Terror Arrests Highlight Ongoing Travel Threat

The arrests of two 23-year-old U.S. citizens in Texas in separate incidents on Tuesday for allegedly planning to join terrorist groups overseas underscores the ongo­ing con­cerns over Amer­i­cans join­ing ter­ror­ist groups abroad and the con­tin­ued allure of Al Qaeda and its affil­i­ates.

Dozens of Americans and per­ma­nent res­i­dents have been charged in recent years in con­nec­tion with attempts to jointer­ror­ist groups abroad, includ­ing Al Shabaab in Soma­lia and Al Qaeda in the Ara­bian Penin­sula in Yemen, as well as terrorists groups in Syria.

Michael Todd Wolfe of Austin, Texas, is alleged to have attempted to travel to join a terrorist group fighting in Syria.…
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