EU warns of risk of attacks by upstaged Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda, wary of being upstaged by even more ruthless Islamic State fighters, may try to show its relevance by carrying out attacks in Europe, the United States or Israel, the European Union's counter-terrorism coordinator said on Wednesday.
With the world's focus firmly on Islamic State's advances in Syria and Iraq, the EU's Gilles de Kerchove warned of the risk of competition between Islamic State and al Qaeda, which has renounced its offshoot as too brutal.
"It is possible that al Qaeda may want to mount attacks to show that the organisation is still relevant, they are still in the game," De Kerchove told a European Parliament committee.
He said some militants had moved from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Syria where they formed part of the Al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group
