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Intelligence: Islamic State Planning Terror Attack in US, Europe
Arutz Sheva ^ | 8-17-14 | Tova Dvorin

Posted on 08/17/2014 8:05:35 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Members of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) are planning to carry out major terror attacks against targets in the United States or in Europe, American intelligence officials said Saturday.

Five intelligence officials stated to Bloomberg News that there is evidence that the organization is running a sleeper cells around the world, outside of Iraq and Syria. The goal: to gain a greater foothold in the Islamic world - politically and militarily.

According to retired U.S. Army Colonel Derek Harvey, the Middle East is gripped in a “competition for jihadi leadership” between IS and Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, following the falling out between the two groups last year.

Harvey also said that US President Barack Obama has severely underestimated IS's current hold in Iraq and Syria, due to a reluctance to put his "toe, foot, and then leg" back in Iraq.

Social networks and foreign nationals have contributed significantly to the upswing in IS influence in the Middle East, additional sources said, as the US struggles to update its outdated estimation that IS has just 10,000 combat soldiers in the region.

The intelligence community has since discovered that IS is working to recruit foreign fighters to carry out terror attacks abroad, an alarming fact revealed in January by a former member of Al Qaeda.

In addition, forty people were recently arrested in Kosovo over IS connections, a figure intelligence cites as proof that the number of foreign nationals being recruited is far higher than what official data states.

Brett McGurk, deputy assistant US Secretary of State for Iran and Iraq, warned that IS is more formidable than Al Qaeda.

“[IS is] better equipped, they’re better manned, they’re better resourced, they’re better fighters, they’re better trained than the Al Qaeda...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I expect a “ merger” between ISIS and Al Qaida.
Each brings a set of assets and skills to the table, they have very similar goals and no major ideological difference. And that will be bad news....


21 posted on 08/17/2014 8:37:20 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

You evil hateful bastards didn’t learn anything from bombing the world trade center? You go ahead, you just go ahead and do it. You will be in your graves so fast.


22 posted on 08/17/2014 8:41:25 AM PDT by amnestynone
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To: Diogenesis

This is why the enemy islamist soebarkah has completely collapsed our southern border.

James O’Keefe documented his own crossing as a fully decked out jihadi, for God’s sake.


23 posted on 08/17/2014 8:56:56 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

24 posted on 08/17/2014 9:08:25 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Diogenesis

Well, we know for a fact that our borders are more secure than ever and that it is impossible for ISIS to sneak their people into our nation. Also that it is much less likely that our own government would then transport the ISIS members to every state in the nation under the guise of humane treatment. So the target has got to be Europe.


25 posted on 08/17/2014 9:34:47 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: lonevoice

God help us all. This so reminds me of the Dan Simmons’ short story. I truly shutter to think how many terrorist cells are operating inside both the U.S. and Europe. It is beyond the time to put a period on this page in our history. We end it now or suffer unbearable consequences. (Post #3 is very graphic, so beware.)


26 posted on 08/17/2014 9:50:52 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

And when it happens here ever lib will ignore that they hammered Bush about the vague Osama warning. And they will dutifully repeat the president blaming attacks on the republican sequester and failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform when it is revealed the killers walked over from Mexico.


27 posted on 08/17/2014 10:13:07 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

What gave them the first clue?

The bearded savages have been yelling that is what they’re going to do!
Their indoctrination book tells them to kill infidels!
They’ve done it before! They are murdering now!


28 posted on 08/17/2014 10:26:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

We are defenseless as long as the Marxist Muslim occupies the White House. Any serious attack will be met with hand-wringing, restrictions on “domestic terrorists”, sympathy for Muslims, and no retribution. Our nation is currently in a fetal position, waiting for 2016 in the hopes that a man will come along and help us up.


29 posted on 08/17/2014 11:04:04 AM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

What if ISIS gets lucky and takes out Washington, DC? Who would miss it?


30 posted on 08/17/2014 11:37:02 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Diogenesis

Ahhhh ..... the Falling Man and others .... we must never forget.


31 posted on 08/17/2014 12:01:12 PM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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To: CMB_polarization; Pride in the USA
If they are smart, they won’t. Best take over Pakistan to acquire nukes first.

That seems the most likely scenario to me too. And it seems nearly inevitable at this point. I think time is running short.

32 posted on 08/17/2014 12:36:32 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: Pride in the USA

Did anyone ever get an answer to what the message was in Simmons’ story? I’ve been waiting for years.


33 posted on 08/17/2014 4:03:42 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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