The Warning from CIA director Mike Pompeo that IS could still inflict a 9/11 style attack on America despite failed of the Islamic militants

The Warning from CIA director Mike Pompeo that IS could still inflict a 9/11 style attack on America despite failed of the Islamic militants

Islamic militants are capable of orchestrating and carrying out an attack against the US, possibly downing an airplane, the CIA director said on Thursday.

Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is threatened by other militant groups as well and 'IS' capability to conduct an external operation remains. But I wouldn't put them in a singular bucket'.

'Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has for a long time had this mission statement, which includes the taking down of a commercial airliner bound for a western country. Certainly, among those would be the United States.'

Pompeo said America's enemies around the world 'are intent upon using commercial aviation as their vector to present a threat to the West', a day after President Donald Trump's acting homeland security chief invoked the possibility of another 9/11.

However, he also worried about a terrorist capability 'we just don't see' in which Pompeo also underscored President Donald Trump's intent to counteract North Korea.  

On another nuclear concern, Iran, Pompeo stressed that Trump wants to ensure the U.S. foe has no pathway to developing the bomb. To that effect, he said, 'The Iranians have on multiple occasions been capable of presenting a continued threat, through covert efforts to develop their nuclear program along multiple dimensions ... the missile dimension, the weaponization effort, the nuclear component itself,'

He also said it's an 'open secret' that Iran has links to al-Qaida: 'There have been relationships, there are connections. There have been times the Iranians have worked alongside al-Qaida,'

Pompeo also discussed Pakistan's help in getting an American woman, her Canadian husband and three children released last week from the Haqqani militant network. This couple had been held for five years inside Pakistan.

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