Just days after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a string of attacks across Paris that left 129 dead, the group released a video threatening to attack Washington D.C.
The video, which was posted on a dark web site used by ISIS, starts by recounting Sunday night’s French airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, Reuters reported Monday.
“We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington,” a man dressed in fatigue and a turban reportedly says in the video.
CIA director John Brennan said Monday the U.S. has not underestimated the threat of ISIS, and while it is “inevitable” that the Islamic State will try to carry out attacks, “it is not inevitable that they are going to succeed.”
