President Obama said Thursday that the Islamic State appears to be shifting its tactics to “high profile” attacks on tourists in cities around the world as it loses ground in its homeland of Iraq and Syria. "None of ISIL's leaders are safe," Obama said, "and we're going to keep going after them."
Obama said the threat of ISIL attacks in the United States keeps intelligence and law enforcement officials working around the clock.
“I think it is serious,” he said. “We take it seriously.”
But the focus of the Islamic State (also know as ISIS or ISIL), is less on 9/11-style attacks because the terrorists realize they generate attention from attacks with small arms or even a truck as happened in Nice, France.
“The possibility of a lone actor or a small cell that kills people is real," Obama said.
Obama's comments came on the third day of a bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Libya, where U.S. warplanes hammered the militants. The Libya strikes signal an expansion of the fight against the Islamic State.
Obama met at the Pentagon with members of the National Security Council to discuss progress against ISIL. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took part in discussions about the air war as it enters it nears its second anniversary.
Thursday’s attack destroyed a pickup truck with a recoil-less rifle, a gun that fires artillery rounds, according to the Pentagon. The expansion of the air war to Libya has been dubbed Operation Odyssey Lightning. The U.S.-led coalition began attacking ISIL fighters in 2014 after they swept through large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Source :usatoday
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