Terror threat

Comey: Terrorist infiltration to 'dominate' FBI focus for years

The flow of terrorists from the Arab world to Western Europe and the United States is going to "dominate" the FBI's attention for the foreseeable future, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday.

"The threat that I believe will dominate the next five years for the FBI will be the impact of crushing of the caliphate," Comey said on a panel at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C.

"They're going to flow out to maybe other places to metastasize, but a huge number are going to fly north to Western Europe. Being equipped for those, the Paris-, Brussel-type attackers, looking to take the fight here and maintain ISIL's cred in the global jihad world, is going to dominate our lives," he added.