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There are any number of groups in iraq, in afghanistan, in syria who are drawing into the chaos in which they live and operate, drawing people who have ambitions well beyond what they may be seeking to achieve in damascus or in baghdad, that they want to go international. so no question that whenever you have chaos like you do in syria, and these areas become magnets for people from all over the arab world, from people from europe to train and learn. some of them have transnational ambitions and it s something that we need to keep a very close eye on. and are you concerned? i mean, just directly, does the war in syria, does this pose a threat to the u.s. homeland? well, you know, look, if it weren t syria, it would be somewhere else. there are chaotic areas all over the world, whether it s libya or afghanistan or parts of iraq, parts of yemen where people who would seek to do us harm can find refuge. so i wouldn t overfocus on syria, but of course, where you have ungoverned areas a ....
In syria, and where you have very bad, very extremist people learning to use weaponry, it s of profound concern to the united states. also of concern, with just a few days to go now until the start of the olympics in sochi, we know the president said last week that sochi is safe. however, security experts that i ve spoken with, people on the ground, they themselves say they wouldn t even go. so what does the intelligence you re seeing indicate? well, you know, you very rarely get intelligence on a specific attack before that attack happens. and, of course, you know, both the russians and of course there s been a lot of international cooperation, have really done their best to lock down sochi, to install all sorts of security measures just as is happening as we speak for the super bowl. i have no reason to believe that those measures aren t quite solid. but again, it s always as they say. it s the bullet you don t see that kills you. there are people, whether out of check nia or dag ....