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ISIS offshoot in Afghanistan willing, able to strike US, says intelligence official
Source: USA Today
ISIS offshoot in Afghanistan willing, able to strike US, says intelligence official
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET April 17, 2019 | Updated 8:39 a.m. ET April 17, 2019
WASHINGTON – ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Afghanistan, noted for their brutality in a brutal land, pose the top threat for spectacular attacks in the United States, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official.
The group known as ISIS-K, like al-Qaeda, which plotted the 9/11 terror attacks from Afghanistan, also has designs on striking targets in Western nations, said the U.S. intelligence official, who is not authorized to speak publicly.
ISIS-K has hundreds of fighters and has shown increasing effectiveness in its tactics and recruiting in Afghanistan, said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.), the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee who recently visited Afghanistan.
"It's growing in sophistication and numbers," Reed said.
Inspiring, financing and directing attacks abroad is a key goal. A chief worry: a terrorist recruit, for example, driving a truck through a crowd in the United States, the intelligence official said, citing the type of assault the group aspires to.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET April 17, 2019 | Updated 8:39 a.m. ET April 17, 2019
WASHINGTON – ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Afghanistan, noted for their brutality in a brutal land, pose the top threat for spectacular attacks in the United States, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official.
The group known as ISIS-K, like al-Qaeda, which plotted the 9/11 terror attacks from Afghanistan, also has designs on striking targets in Western nations, said the U.S. intelligence official, who is not authorized to speak publicly.
ISIS-K has hundreds of fighters and has shown increasing effectiveness in its tactics and recruiting in Afghanistan, said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.), the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee who recently visited Afghanistan.
"It's growing in sophistication and numbers," Reed said.
Inspiring, financing and directing attacks abroad is a key goal. A chief worry: a terrorist recruit, for example, driving a truck through a crowd in the United States, the intelligence official said, citing the type of assault the group aspires to.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/17/brutal-isis-group-afghanistan-appears-ready-strike-united-states/3485791002/
