With ISIS, Terror Runs In The Family

Vocativ
By: Kate Brannen

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The list of infamous terrorist brothers keeps growing longer as new terror attacks grab headlines. From the Tsarnaevs, responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, to the Kouachis, who attacked Charlie Hebdo, and now the Abdeslams in Paris, siblings are a common, but not well-understood, phenomenon of terror groups like ISIS…

This web of connections is one reason why this terror cell was so difficult to detect, let alone penetrate, says Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer now working at The Soufan Group, a security consulting firm based in New York.

“It makes it really hard to send informants or sources against the group, because they’re hugging each other and they’re not letting anyone else in,” he said.

When family ties are at play, it also becomes that much harder to back out of an operation or to leave the group altogether and become…

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