WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sees a rising ****** that battle-hardened militants who have spent time in Syria and Iraq will be able to enter the United States on European passports.

Obama says these militants pose a danger because they won’t need a U.S. passport to make such a visit.

He tells ABC’s “This Week” that the U.S. must improve surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering to neutralize the risk, and U.S. Special Forces are going to have a role. And he says military strikes against organizations that could do us harm may be utilized.

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Obama says such militants have been gaining strength in some places.