CIA Director John Brennan, seen here in 2014, spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations event in which he discussed the CIA's new structure. (Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters).
Bloomberg: CIA Director Says Assad’s Collapse Would Risk Terrorist Takeover
(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. doesn’t want to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government collapse and create a vacuum for Islamic State and other militants to take over, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said.
When asked whether he fears what might follow if Assad’s regime collapsed, Brennan called it “a legitimate concern.”
“What we don’t want to do is to allow those extremist elements” including Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda elements within Syria to seize power from a collapsed regime, Brennan told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Friday. “The last thing we want to do is to allow them to march into Damascus.”
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