Terror threat

FBI director says Islamic State poses greater threat to U.S. than Al Qaeda

The militant organization that is governing large swaths of Iraq and Syria "is not your parents' Al Qaeda," FBI Director James B. Comey told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum. Unlike Al Qaeda's leadership, which painstakingly vets recruits and plots attacks for months and years, Islamic State has learned to "crowdsource terrorism," he said, and it uses social media to "sell its message to troubled souls."