Monday, 23 November 2015

CIA director says more ISIL attacks possible

Source: CCTV

CIA director John Brennan says there may be more attacks to come. Brennan said that he did not consider Friday's attacks in Paris to be 'a one-off event.' And he called the well-coordinated attacks in Paris a sign of a maturing 'external operations agenda' by the extremist group ISIL.
"I would anticipate that this is not the only operation that ISIL has in the pipeline. Security intelligence services right now in Europe and other places are working feverishly to see what they can do in terms of uncovering it," Brennan said.
Brennan's remarks came the same day as reports surfaced of a new ISIL video, which claimed that the group planned to "strike America at its center in Washington", and that other countries who had participated in counter-ISIL strikes would also be the group's targets. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it has not received information indicating a potential attack. But security measures were stepped up in subways, airports and on Capitol Hill.

On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain will boost its intelligence agency staff by 15 percent and more than double spending on aviation security to counter the increasing threat from ISIL.

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