U.S. Officials: Al-Qaeda's Resurgence In Iraq Is A Threat To U.S. Interests

Iraqi Militants Seeking Recruits to Attack U.S., Lawmaker Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek

Members of a militant group operating in Iraq and Syria are recruiting people to attack the U.S., according to the lawmaker who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant “has reportedly been actively recruiting individuals capable of traveling to the U.S. to carry out attacks,” Representative Ed Royce, a California Republican, said at a hearing of his panel yesterday.

The session, held to examine how the resurgence of Islamic extremism in Iraq threatens U.S. interests, came on a day when suicide bombings in Baghdad, the capital, killed as many as 48 people and wounded 119. In 2013, two years after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq, suicide attacks and car bombs “initiated by ISIL returned to levels not seen since the height of” al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2007, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk told the committee.

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Update: Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests -- US Department of Defense

My Comment: The above video provides a good and sobering assessment that summarizes the threat that Al Qaeda is now presenting.