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Report: Federal employee in Maryland on Islamic State hit list

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WASHINGTON — A federal employee who works in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has been warned that she is on a hit list from the Islamic State.

NBC Washington, WTOP’s news partner, reports that the woman, whose name has not been released, works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and first learned about the threat in August.

“When we get any information regarding any sort of threat against a person or business, criminal or national security in nature, we alert those people or businesses,” an FBI spokeswoman told NBC Washington.

“We have a duty to warn anyone who the threat was made against, and we do all we can to mitigate it.”

The woman was told to inform the agency police about her “arrivals and departures from [the] NIST campus,” NBC Washington reports. A police report NBC Washington viewed says the employee has no ties to the Islamic State.

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