Washington – Islamic State is likely to “increase the pace and lethality” of its transnational attacks, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Vincent Stewart said on Monday.
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Speaking to a security conference, Stewart linked his warning to the extremist movement’s establishment of “emerging branches” in Mali, Tunisia, Somalia, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
“And it wouldn’t surprise me to see them further extend” operations from the Sinai Peninsula deeper into Egypt, he said.
“Last year, Daesh remained entrenched on Iraqi and Syrian battlefields and expanded globally to Libya, Sinai, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Caucasus,” Stewart said, using a derisive Arabic acronym for Islamic State. “Daesh is likely to increase the pace and lethality of its transnational attacks.”
Do you need the U.S. Defense Intelligence Chief to make a “prediction” that IS attacks will increase? Any child would know that at the rate things are going. Is this the level of intelligence of the US Defense Chief?
Wow, what a genius. And he gets paid how much? And has access to all the spy intelligence in the world. The terrorists themselves have been continuously saying this.
Wow brilliant indeed…. who could have predicted the obvious….
One of Obama’s biggest failures was ignoring all of the signals and underestimating the rise of ISIS until it was too late
For this we needed the head of military to tell us? Anyone with eyes knows this.
Why do so many white Americans hate Muslims? Just because they are the next big problem in the world and in the USA security situation.
Finally Obama will find out ISIS iS spreading and is not contained AT ALL.
After all, Obama gets his intelligence reports from the TV, like he did in “Fast and Furious”.
1940: Army intelligence chief tells congress that the German attacks against European nations will increase in pace and “lethality”. BIG NEWS!!!!