U.S. sees threat of another 9/11 from Al Qaida-trained Syria veterans

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WASHINGTON — The United States has assessed that it could come under another major Al Qaida attack by operatives hardened in the Syrian War.

Meanwhile, Egypt is contending with an Al Qaida offensive believed led by commanders transplanted from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A senior official has raised the prospect that Al Qaida could be training scores of operatives to infiltrate Europe and the United States. FBI director James Comey said Al Qaida was working with Westerners recruited to fight the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“There’s going to be a diaspora out of Syria at some point, and we are determined not to let lines be drawn from Syria today to a future 9/11,” said Comey, referring to the more than 3,000 people killed in Al Qaida air suicide attacks on New York and Washington in 2001

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