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General Category => World News => Topic started by: ABX on February 19, 2019, 11:02:27 pm

Title: US officials warn ISIS' Afghanistan branch poses a major threat
Post by: ABX on February 19, 2019, 11:02:27 pm

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ISIS' Afghanistan-based affiliate has emerged as a major threat capable of carrying out direct attacks on the US and is actively using its members' social media to acquire contacts in the United States, a US intelligence official in Afghanistan tells CNN.

"They are closest to having the capacity to attack the homeland from Afghanistan," the official said, saying the US believes ISIS is gathering this social media information to determine whom they can use and whom they could exploit in potential future attacks on the US.....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-officials-warn-isis-afghanistan-branch-poses-a-major-threat/ar-BBTPdfK (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-officials-warn-isis-afghanistan-branch-poses-a-major-threat/ar-BBTPdfK)