A top US intelligence official told reporters on Monday that, ISIS has underground cells in the UK, Germany and Italy. James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at a reporters' breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, DC.
Clapper became the country's top intelligence official in 2010, when Barack Obama named him to replace Dennis Blair.
When asked whether ISIS had groups in the UK, Germany and Italy similar to those that carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks, Clapper replied: 'Yes they do.'
He added that intelligence officials continue to see evidence of plotting on the part of ISIS in these countries, the New York Times reported.
ISIS has pledged to attack these three countries, although experts say it is impossible to know where the terrorist group will hit next, the New York Times wrote.
Former French intelligence officer Claude Moniquet told the newspaper the UK and Germany were particularly concerned about a potential attack.
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