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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-officials-losses-battlefield-end-threat-41955986
U.S. Officials: IS Losses on Battlefield Won't End Threat
(AP-ABC News) Deb Riechmann - Despite the Islamic State's loss of territory, Islamic extremists will continue to pose serious national security problems for the U.S. and Europe in coming years, the directors of the FBI and CIA said Thursday. "The threat that I think will dominate the next five years for the FBI will be the impact of the crushing of the caliphate, which will happen," FBI Director James Comey said. "Through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of hardened killers, who are not going to die on the battlefield. They are going to flow out." He predicted that many will head into Western Europe and try to duplicate recent attacks in Paris and Brussels to maintain IS' credibility in the militant world. Others will try to bring the fight to the U.S.