The CIA says the so-called Islamic State is undiminished by almost two years of war, and will step up terrorist attacks worldwide as it loses territory in Iraq and Syria. Calling ISIS a “formidable, resilient” enemy, CIA director John Brennan said the group will likely switch to guerrilla tactics as it is driven off the battlefield and will send more of its Western operatives to attack Europe and beyond, while using social media to groom future lone wolves like U.S.-born Omar Mateen, 29, who killed 49 people Sunday in Orlando. Brennan’s testimony amounted to a failing grade for Obama administration efforts to check the ISIS’s spread, despite an almost two-year barrage of U.S. air strikes and ground assaults in Iraq and Syria that have cost the group significant territory. Brennan described ISIS’s cancer-like consumption of other regional militant organizations in Libya, Egypt, and Africa, folding them into a single bloodthirsty ideology that takes root wherever there is chaos.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/16/cia-chief-john-brennan-gives-war-on-isis-an-f.html
