Wednesday, June 29, 2016

CIA Director:IS Trying to Make Major US Attack; Says Security, Intel Prevent a Turkey-Type Attack

Within a few hours after three suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and wounded hundreds more at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, CIA Director John Brennan said the attacks bore the grim hallmarks of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and warned that the fanatically violent Islamic terrorist group wants to conduct similar large-scale attacks in the United States, the Yahoo News website reports today (June 29, 2016).

"I am worried from the standpoint of an intelligence professional who looks at the capabilities of Daesh [ISIS] ... and their determination to kill as many people as possible and to carry out attacks abroad," Brennan said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News.

Brennan credited effective homeland security measures and intelligence for the fact that ISIS has been unable to attack America directly. (The Orlando and San Bernardino shootings were carried out by Islamic radicals inspired by ISIS, but not under its control.)

He added, "I'd be surprised if Daesh is not trying to carry out that kind of attack [as the one at the Istanbul airport] in the United States."

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