Retired Army Lt. Gen Michael Flynn told Fox News he has warned friends in Germany to be careful after he saw online chatter that Berlin could be the next target of a terror attack.
"I don't know what activities are going on there, but I'm just putting that out," Flynn said Thursday on "The Kelly File" following
a truck attack at Nice in which at least 80 people died after being run over by a truck.
Flynn, a registered Democrat who was speculated as a possible vice presidential pick by Republican Donald Trump as recently as last week, said he was irritated by President Barack Obama's statement in which he again did not identify the enemy as radical Islam.
"I'm done trying to convince him to really recognize what it is that we are facing, and we should not fear what it is we are facing," he said. "We should stand up to this."
The chatter he has heard is not coming from leaders of terrorist groups, but from soldiers, Flynn said.
"I want these leaders in this world, in this Muslim world that have this radical islamic ideology festering, metastasizing, to stand up and stand up tonight and be counted and say something to condemn this attack that we have just seen," Flynn said. "We are going to see more of these. These guys are executing a campaign plan. … It may not feel like that, like tanks on the desert and planes and ships at sea. But this is a World War. They've declared war on us.