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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/04/middleeast/obama-clapper-isis-attack-u-s-soil/index.html
Top U.S. Intelligence Official: ISIS Can Stage Europe-Style Attacks in U.S.
(CNN) Nicole Gaouette - Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN that ISIS has the capability to stage a Paris-style attack in the U.S. using local cells to strike in multiple locations and inflict dozens of casualties. "That's something we worry about a lot in the United States, that they could conjure up a raid like they did in Paris or Brussels." ISIS would "either infiltrate people or incite people who are already here," he said. "We've already seen some cases of that." Clapper assessed that there are now eight provinces of the Caliphate that ISIS has claimed to have established and several other "nascent provinces that are striving, it appears, to be considered full-up members of the Caliphate."