FBI’s Comey Warns ISIS Fighters Could Spread to U.S., Western Europe If Defeated in Middle East ‘Greater than any diaspora we’ve seen before,’ director says of possible outcome By Nicole Hong see note please
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-comey-warns-isis-fighters-could-spread-to-u-s-western-europe-if-defeated-in-middle-east-1469742471
Say what? Don’t fight them there or they will go to Europe and America? They already have. Is he dense or was he too busy trying to exonerate Hillary to have read the news about Orlando or France or Germany? Federal Bureau of Ineptitude? rsk
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey warned of a potential consequence of a future Islamic State defeat in the Middle East: a migration of the group’s fighters to Western Europe and the U.S.
In a speech at Fordham University on Wednesday, Mr. Comey said counterterrorism officials are focused on the prospect of hundreds of Islamic State fighters surviving the battlefield and flowing into Western Europe to commit attacks like the recent ones in Brussels and Paris. The ease of travel would also make the U.S. vulnerable to this threat, he said.
“This is an order of magnitude greater than any diaspora we’ve seen before,” Mr. Comey said. “A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This is 10 times that or more.”
Mr. Comey said violence inspired and directed by Islamic State is the greatest current threat to the physical safety of Americans. Trying to stop such attacks is even harder than finding a needle in a haystack, he said.
“We have to figure out which pieces of hay may become a needle because there are troubled people consuming that propaganda all over the world,” he said.
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