US Intel Head: Isis has taken advantage of open borders to plant sleeper cells in the UK, Germany and Italy...

Daily Mail
April 27, 2016

ISIS has underground cells in the UK, Germany and Italy, a top US intelligence official told reporters on Monday.

James Clapper, the Director Of National Intelligence, spoke at a reporters’ breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, DC.

When asked whether ISIS had groups in the UK, Germany and Italy similar to those that carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks, Clapper replied: ‘Yes they do.’

He added that intelligence officials continue to see evidence of plotting on the part of ISIS in these countries, the New York Times reported.

Clapper became the country’s top intelligence official in 2010, when Barack Obama named him to replace Dennis Blair.

ISIS has pledged to attack these three countries, although experts say it is impossible to know where the terrorist group will hit next, the New York Times wrote.

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