webfact Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 CIA chief: IS working to send operatives to the WestDEB RIECHMANN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Brennan will tell Congress on Thursday that Islamic State militants are training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for their territorial losses.In remarks prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, Brennan says IS has been working to build an apparatus to direct and inspire attacks against its foreign enemies, as in the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels — ones the CIA believes were directed by IS leaders."ISIL has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West," Brennan said, using another acronym for the group. He said IS probably is working to smuggle them into countries, perhaps among refugee flows or through legitimate means of travel.Brennan also noted the group's call for followers to conduct so-called lone-wolf attacks in their home countries. He called last week's attack in Orlando a "heinous act of wanton violence" and an "assault on the values of openness and tolerance" that define the United States as a nation.He said IS is gradually cultivating its various branches into an interconnected network. The branch in Libya is likely the most advanced and most dangerous, but IS is trying to increase its influence in Africa, he said. The IS branch in the Sinai has become the "most active and capable terrorist group in Egypt," attacking the Egyptian military and government targets in addition to foreigners and tourists, such as the downing of a Russian passenger jet last October.Other branches have struggled to gain traction, he says. "The Yemen branch, for instance, has been riven with factionalism. And the Afghanistan-Pakistan branch has struggled to maintain its cohesion, in part because of competition with the Taliban."He called IS a "formidable adversary," but said the U.S.-led coalition has made progress combatting the group, which has had to surrender large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and has lost some of its leaders in airstrikes. IS has struggled to replenish its ranks of fighters, Brennan said, because fewer of them are traveling to Syria and others have defected."The group appears to be a long way from realizing the vision that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi laid out when he declared the caliphate two years ago in Mosul," Iraq, Brennan said.He said the group's ability to raise money has also been curtailed, although the group still continues to generate at least tens of millions of dollars in revenue each month, mostly from taxation and from sales of crude oil."Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach," he said."In fact, as the pressure mounts on ISIL, we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda."-- (c) Associated Press 2016-06-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) he is way behind their operatives are already in the west, it just they want more , When they get set up it will be like shoting fish in a barrel. As seen last weekend. Edited June 16, 2016 by shirtless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtRock Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 ISIL specific. Flash to bang time at least 12 months. Well done the CIA. Islamic Jihadists, sympathisers and sleeper cells. Must be 20 years at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caps Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Doesn't really take a lot of working out....well done Speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 CIA chief: IS working to send operatives to the West Well, duh..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Thanx chief for letting us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuaBS Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Can they do it before the 23rd of june ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDodd Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Can they do it before the 23rd of june ? Probably will be that very day....unsurprisingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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