CIA Chief: Islamic State has developed ‘external operations agenda’
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said Monday the Islamic State terrorist network had developed an “external operations agenda,” plotting attacks far outside its havens in Iraq and Syria, in his first public remarks since the large-scale attacks on Friday in Paris. Mr. Brennan, speaking at a Washington national security forum hosted by the Center for Strategic & International […]Damian Paletta writes for the Wall Street Journal:
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said Monday the Islamic State terrorist network had developed an “external operations agenda,” plotting attacks far outside its havens in Iraq and Syria, in his first public remarks since the large-scale attacks on Friday in Paris.
Mr. Brennan, speaking at a Washington national security forum hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, said the Paris attacks, which killed at least 129 people in separate coordinated bombings and shootings, should force the U.S. and other nations to “urgently commit to achieving an even greater” resolve toward cooperation, information, and joint action against the group. “Our sensibilities and souls should have been jarred once again,” he said of the Paris attacks. He described the Islamic State as “murderous sociopaths” with a “bogus religious pretense.”
