How ISIS could threaten the US; How ISIS could threaten the U.S. Al-Trinidadi from the US? Al-Habashi from Britain? Lt Col. Rick Francona (RET.) Falah Mustafa Bakir, Foreign Minister, Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government: "We need the United States and NATO to interfere because we are fighting on behalf of all those who are against terrorism." Risk: US military assets given to Kurdish forces could get in the hands of ISIS or US-armed Kurds could progress to overtake all of Iraq.