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It’s no secret that terrorism is on most people’s mind in this day and age. From the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the London bombing that was aimed at the city’s public transportation system at rush hour on July 7, 2005, the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya from September 21st - 24th, 2013 and finally to the recent rising of the Islamic State group in the middle east threatening to disrupt our way of life. This is a time when even going to a concert in the middle of nowhere USA could potentially be a life threatening event if someone deems it appropriate to cause chaos for their ideas and beliefs. But for all of the pandemonium and chaos happening around the world, there are a few members of terrorist organizations who are leaving all of the murder and mayhem behind them and trying to assimilate back into the general population, becoming disengaged in what’s known as terrorist disengagement, or deradicalization. In an article on TODAYonline.com titled “Balancing the trade-offs in dealing with returning jihadists”, Damien Cheong a coordinator at the Homeland Defense Program recently wrote that there is new evidence surfacing of several members of the organization Islamic State are returning back to their respective countries of origin worldwide in an effort to assimilate and leave the ‘profession’ of terrorism. According to Cheong, officials in the United States revealed that several American fighters working with the Islamic State group have returned back to the US and are being “actively monitored by security agencies.” He also notes that in Israel a returning jihadist upon his arrival was arrested and convicted for “unlawfully leaving Israel and undergoing prohibited military training.” The cause and concern over returning fighters is not unwarranted as recently a French fighter connected to the Islamic State, who has been repatriated after fighting in the Middle East kille

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