Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. General Vincent Stewart told the Senate Armed Services Committee that ISIS “”will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt to direct attacks on the US homeland in 2016.”
He was speaking at the annual US Senate hearing on world-wide threats along with other key US intelligence officials.
James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, explained to the committee that ISIS is “taking advantage of the torrent of migrants to insert operatives into that flow,” and cautioned that the terrorist organization is “pretty skilled at phony passports so they can travel ostensibly as legitimate travelers.”
Clapper added: “As we saw in the November Paris attacks,” during which ISIS terrorists who were trained in the Middle East were able to murder 130 people in just one night, “returning foreign fighters with firsthand battlefield experience pose a dangerous operational threat.”
He continued: “Although the US is a much harder target than Europe, ISIL’s leaders are determined to strike the US homeland beyond inspiring homegrown violent extremist attacks.”
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