US Officials Now Fear the Worst and Lives May Drastically Change This Year As All Hell Breaks Loose! (Video)
Armed French soldiers patrol in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, December 30, 2015, as a security alert continues during the Christmas and New Year holiday season following the November shooting attacks in the…
Top US intelligence officials discussed the possibility of ISIS sneaking into America and scaling an attack this year, 2016 when they convened at the annual worldwide threats hearing in the Senate this week.
According to MSN news, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that ISIS (also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh) “will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt to direct attacks on the US homeland in 2016.”
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the committee that ISIS is “taking advantage of the torrent of migrants to insert operatives into that flow” and warned that the group is “pretty skilled at phony passports so they can travel ostensibly as legitimate travelers.”
“As we saw in the November Paris attacks,” in which ISIS operatives trained in the Middle East killed 130 people across the city in a single night, “returning foreign fighters with firsthand battlefield experience pose a dangerous operational threat,” Clapper said.
“Although the US is a much harder target than Europe, ISIL’s leaders are determined to strike the US homeland beyond inspiring homegrown violent extremists attacks.”
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Though some experts have down-played these alarming predictions.
Christopher Swift, an adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University and international lawyer at Foley & Lardner, says fears regarding highly trained ISIS operatives getting into the US are probably over-exaggerated. He said this week that ISIS would be more likely to attempt to radicalize people who are already in the US rather than send operatives overseas.
“It’s a lower-cost strategy for ISIS and they don’t need to have a major event to have an effect, it’s sufficient for them to have a moderate number of small events that are difficult for people to anticipate,” Swift, who testified in front of the House subcommittee on terrorism this week, told Business Insider.
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MSN News also reported that, because anyone who has an internet connection is able to find ISIS propaganda online, it is quite simple for people without formal connections to terrorist groups to become radicalized, but fly under the radar of US law enforcement. Those who travel to the US who have been to conflict zones overseas, however, are going to appear more suspicious. They also added that it would also take highly trained ISIS operatives out of the group’s territory in the Middle East, where they could be useful.
Swift stated that, “Throwing a set of operatives at the US border, you’re taking high-value people and throwing them at a hard target. It would show a level of desperation on their part because it’d show they’re willing to make an investment that they haven’t been willing to make to date.”
Motivating radicalized “lone wolves” in the US will likely be of lower impact for ISIS — to pull off a Paris-style attack with high casualty counts, it takes sophisticated planning and a group of trained terrorists — but it’s also more likely to be successful.
“It’s low cost, it’s easier to do, it has a higher likelihood of success and a lower likelihood of discovery,” Swift said.
However, Swift did caution that as ISIS loses their foothold in the Middle East among a campaign of US-led airstrikes and local ground offensives, they will seek to attack external targets in the West, which includes the US.
“When you’re losing, you try to get your adversary to stop beating you,” Swift said. “And one of the ways to do that is to turn the tables on your adversary and hit them.”
A journalist and national security analyst who recently wrote the book “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists,” Peter Bergen, also made a similar assessment.
Bergen recently told Business Insider, ”I think it’s quite unlikely that there would be a Paris-style attack in the United States.”
He added, “They almost all trained in Syria, there were probably a couple of dozen people in a support network in both France and Belgium. We just don’t have that here. And we’ve had a number of people, Americans, who’ve gone to join ISIS; usually it’s a one-way ticket.”
And another benefit to consider is the ocean between the US and the Middle East and Europe.
“We’re protected by our geography,” Bergen said. “You can drive from Paris to Damascus; you can’t drive from Damascus to New York City. It’s the French citizens, the German citizens, the British citizens — these countries are really having a serious problem and as we saw in Paris, that can have very violent consequences.
“… The profile of a terrorist in Europe now amongst the Muslim population is they are very disadvantaged, they come out of a criminal background, they often meet in prison and are radicalized in prison. And we’re not seeing that in the United States because American Muslims don’t live in ghettos, their average income is the same as the average American, the average education is the same.”
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Yet, without question, ISIS has been steadily ramping up its attacks against the West, with the US as its prime target.
In a written testimony, Clapper stated, “The United States will almost certainly remain at least a rhetorically important enemy for most violent extremists in part due to past and ongoing US military, political, and economic engagement overseas. ”Sunni violent extremists will probably continually plot against US interests overseas. A smaller number will attempt to overcome the logistical challenges associated with conducting attacks on the US homeland.”
And Clapper acknowledged that the greatest threat the US probably faces is from these “lone wolves” who may never have visited ISIS territory, yet still may very well act in the interest of the group.
Clapper added, ”The perceived success of attacks by [homegrown violent extremists] in Europe and North America, such as those in Chattanooga and San Bernardino, might motivate others to replicate opportunistic attacks with little or no warning, diminishing our ability to detect terrorist operational planning and readiness. ISIL involvement in homeland attack activity will probably continue to involve those who draw inspiration from the group’s highly sophisticated media without direct guidance from ISIL leadership and individuals in the United States or abroad who receive direct guidance and specific direction from ISIL members or leaders.”
Hello Angle#2,
Charlie here. Yes America is very different in culture to the socialist Europeans. Why do you think we separated over 200 years ago? There land has the mark of violence on it for hundreds of years and are now tourist attractions for all to see.
We in America don’t have such a heritage and baggage. Destroy it, we rebuild. Europe just lets it rot.
Will they they attack America? Yes, of course, but the method will be different and more spectacular. Maybe even massive. It must match our image, ya know….
Signed,
Charlie (most active patriot and hands-on “do” nut)
cunning, but the same firm which gave us the wars in europe also gave us americas wars including the civil war….lest we forget.
Hahaha the dog that bites the hand that feeds it? Nah if there are attacks on US targets You Know it’s CIA backed because ISIS work for them.As do the Syrian Rebels who’re paid to unseat Assad.You know this aswell as I do as it’s public knowledge on the internet.Still think you can trust a word that comes from their mouth pieces then you are still Blind.
Operation Gladio – GONE BAD !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuMn6O0BkU
wow, why am I getting all exited? Must be fear porn.
,,,,,,,,,here’s more …….. its not isis but the great military partnership between Russia and China you have to worry will come to a place near you… soon. Adios Americicanos!
PS thanks for the music.
“US officials now fear the worst”
What? They’re afraid of themselves now too?
“MSN News also reported that, because anyone who has an internet connection is able to find ISIS propaganda online”
Maybe if you go looking for it. The MSN on the other hand, pumps out all kinds of propaganda to everyone who watches the news. The job of the MSN is to incite hatred amongst the mass populace in order to manufacture consent for illegal wars in foreign lands. When somebody chokes on a piece of steak in a resteraunt, people immediately assume it was the Muslims and without any information to substantiate the claim, people will believe it. 9/11 is a perfect example. Instead of looking for Muslims under the bed, start looking for Israeli dual citizens and Zionist Jews controlling your government, financial capital and media.
Who benefits from this so called “war on terror”?? America? The Muslims? Or, the Jewish owned and operated federal reserve, who provides the financial capital out of thin air and collects the interest on the multi trillion dollar cost of war? What about the Israelis, who are witnessing Arab lands topple all around them, how convenient it is for them to share their illegal settlements in the Golan heights with ISIS and not get attacked. “By way of deception, thou shalt do war” the Mossad says. What could be more deceptive than tearing down three buildings in NY and using your control over the media and government to convince the masses that it was your Muslim enemies that did it? Nothing will ever change until this is set straight.
THERE IS AN AGENDA BUT WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT IT iS
WHO CARES,I GET ON WITH MY LIFE
FEAR IS ALL THAT THESE PEOPLE CAN DO
yup-gonna have a cold beer-hell with it all–i wonder if Lyn has a nice body? i give her 500 bucks for a picture in her undies..
its a huge propaganda stunt to get everyone onboard the new world order/agenda campaign and commence depopulation of the middle and lower classes to create a world/playground only for rich elite extremists and sociopaths
“US Officials Now Fear the Worst and Lives May Drastically Change This Year As All Hell Breaks Loose! ”
If you’re talking about the USA, I have not so much as a single scrap of sympathy. Chickens coming home to roost.. and all that jazz. ‘You reap what you sow’; the USA has only had four years of peace in it’s entire existence. ‘Live by the sword, you’ll die by the sword’. Bon appetite, not a single sh*t is given.