RIGHT AT HOME – AT 1:18 P.M. ET:  They're here.  From The New York Times, developing: 

Three men living in Brooklyn were arrested and charged on Wednesday with providing material support to the Islamic State, a terrorist organization that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and has been actively recruiting Westerners to its fight.

One of the men was arrested early Wednesday morning at Kennedy International Airport, where he was attempting to board a flight to Istanbul and then planned to travel to Syria, according to the authorities.

The men were identified as Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, Akhror Saidakhmetov, and Abror Habibov.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, the authorities first became suspicious about at least two of the men in August and are concerned that more individuals might have been involved.

According to the complaint, one of the men who sought to travel to Syria to fight said that if he failed to make it overseas, he would launch attacks in the United States, including planting a bomb on Coney Island and attacking President Obama.

COMMENT:  Hard to know where these gents are from.  The names don't look Arabic.  But the Islamic State is here, and is recruiting.  And its greatest recruiting tool is victory.  As long as it keeps gaining, it will get young soldiers to join.  If it's defeated on the battlefield, recruiting will be much more difficult.  No one wants to join a losing cause.

February 25, 2015