Ex-CIA director: ‘IS(ICIA) affiliates multiplying faster than Al Qaeda’s ever did’
RT.com
13 Jan, 2016
Groups allying themselves with Islamic State are breeding faster than Al Qaeda affiliates ever did, a former CIA boss told Congress following the latest attack in Turkey, which officials say was carried out by a bomber connected with the terrorist group.
Allegiance to Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) has grown from “nothing” only a year ago to nearly 20 countries, President Barack Obama’s former CIA director Michael Morell testified at the House Armed Services Committee.
“ISIS has gained affiliates faster than Al Qaeda ever did,” Morell was cited by Breitbart as saying, as the dust continues to settle on the deadly blast that claimed 10 lives and wounded 15 people in the heart of Istanbul.
“They have conducted attacks that have already killed Americans and they carry the potential to themselves to grab large amounts of territory.”
IS is now “a significant strategic and lethal threat” to the United States and beyond, Morell said, as he reiterated calls to destroy the group, which no longer operates by its own former rules of keeping to its conquered territories of Syria and Iraq.
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