ATLANTA -- The terrorist group that beheaded American journalist James Foley may be a threat to the United States. FBI Director James Comey who was in Atlanta Friday, met with metro area law enforcement agencies, to alert them to the possibility of attacks here in the U.S.
"It may have gone up a degree with us being in an active fight with ISIL," Director Comey said. ISIL is the Islamic group also known as ISIS.
Comey said there have been no specific threats and he seemed more concerned about sympathizers here in the United States than terrorists in Syria and Iraq. "It's something I worry
His concern are heightened by airstrikes in Iraq against the Islamic group. He said intelligence is seeing a gathering of thousands of terrorists in Syria and Iraq and many of them are from Western Europe and North America.
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