ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Congressman Peter King says that the upheaval in Iraq has renewed President Obama’s fears about a possible terrorist strike against the homeland.
The New York Republican, who appeared on ABC’s This Week Sunday, said that the president should take an aggressive stance against the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, not just to keep Iraq stable but to also prevent their fighters from threatening U.S. interests.
King noted that many ISIS militants have passports they can use to come to America and Europe, telling This Week, “All we have to do is miss one or two of them, and we can have a very, very lethal attack here in the U.S.”
According to King, there are “a hundred plus Americans over there in Syria right now. So any of these people can go back to the United States and they can carry out the type of attack that they’re being trained in in Syria.”
Meanwhile, the lawmaker also expressed concern about security procedures at airports overseas, saying that Washington has to push its allies to tighten things up in order to lessen the risk of a terrorist boarding a U.S.-bound plane.
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