Washington: US President Donald Trump`s counter-terrorism adviser compared Islamic State militants fleeing the Middle East to "cockroaches", vowing to "obliterate" the extremist group, the media reported.
"We`re going to obliterate IS. We`re going to wipe them off the face of the Earth," White House deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka told Fox News on Saturday.
"But before we get all of them, what`s going to happen? Some of them, like the cockroaches, when you switch the light on they`re going to scurry. We want to stop them coming here."
Trump`s executive order barring citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US is geared toward blocking militants travelling from the Middle East to America, Gorka said.
"So it`s not the person flying from Los Angeles to New York that`s the threat," he said.
"It`s the IS recruit, who`s travelling out of Mosul (Iraq), out of the Middle East, out of Syria."
Gorka`s comments came after a terrorist attack in London on Wednesday committed by a 52-year-old UK-born man, The Hill magazine reported.
IS claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed five people and left at least 50 people injured.
