Success against ISIS Abroad May Spark More Terror Attacks at Home, Officials Warn
14th July 2016
Battlefield success against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East might not halt its support of terrorism across the globe, top national security officials told members of Congress on Thursday.
In fact, military victories against ISIS may spur additional violence elsewhere, they said.
“The intelligence community assesses that as the caliphate is crushed, the so-called Islamic State will become more desperate to demonstrate its continued vitality, and that will likely take the form of more asymmetric attacks, more efforts at terrorism,” FBI Director James Comey testified, using an alternate name for ISIS and its territory. “It is necessary to crush the caliphate but we can’t take our eye off of what the next move will be by these killers.”