NATO general: Europe migration causing ISIS to spread 'like a cancer'

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(CNN)NATO's top general said that the current exodus of migrants to Europe is providing cover for terrorists and that the mass migration is allowing ISIS to spread "like a cancer."

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By Euan McKirdy, CNN

Following testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 
Supreme Allied Commander Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove told reporters at a Pentagon briefing Tuesday that the "dawning challenge of mass migration" spurred by the ongoing conflict in Syria and the threat of ISIS in the Middle East was allowing terrorists seeking to do harm in Europe and the United States free movement into the continent.

He said that the movement "masks the movement of criminals, terrorists and foreign fighters (into Europe). Within this mix (ISIS) is spreading like a cancer, taking advantage of paths of least resistance and threatening European nations, and our own, with terrorist attacks."