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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/james-clapper-isis-syrian-refugees/
U.S. Intelligence Official: ISIS to Attempt U.S. Attacks This Year
(CNN) Ryan Browne - ISIS "will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016," Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that violent extremists were active in about 40 countries and that there currently exist more terrorist safe havens "than at any time in history." Clapper warned that ISIS was using the refugee exodus from Iraq and Syria to hide among innocent civilians in order to reach other countries, "taking advantage of the torrent of migrants to insert operatives into that flow."