Challenge posed by ISIS different from Al Qaeda: Obama

December 19, 2015 02:18

ISIS today poses a different challenge than that by Al Qaeda previously, US President Barack Obama said today, insisting on striking right balance between individual's privacy concerns and use of internet by the terrorist groups.

"This is a different kind of challenge than the sort that we had with an organisation like Al Qaeda, that involved highly trained operatives who were working as cells or as a network," Obama told reporters at his year ender news conference.

"Here, essentially, you have ISIL trying to encourage or induce somebody who may be prey to this kind of propaganda, and it becomes more difficult to see. It does mean that they are less likely to be able to carry out large, complex attacks, but as we saw in San Bernardino, obviously, you can still do enormous damage,"Obama said.

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