<p>MAINZ, Germany &#8212; At least 17 ISIS militants have arrived in Europe concealed as refugees, according to Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence service.</p> 
<p>Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the BfV agency, said in an interview with the daily FAZ newspaper over the weekend that &#8220;most of them are already in prison or dead."</p> 
<p>The total includes two suspects who died in the Paris terror attacks, according to the report.</p> 
<p>Last year, Germany alone <a type="internal">welcomed more than 1.1 million migrants</a>, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan.</p> 
<p>In an <a type="internal">interview with NBC News earlier this year</a>, Maassen said that ISIS was trying to "send a political, not an operational signal" by capitalizing on the migrant crisis.</p> 
<p>&#8220;It wanted to show ... that it is capable of smuggling terrorists to Europe concealed as refugees and that every refugee can be a terrorist," the intellgence chief added.</p> 
<p>His agency's <a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Broschueren/2016/vsb-kurzfassung-engl-2015.pdf;jsessionid=480D226A3D81AE5B62BEC5536DF2B7B7.2_cid295?__blob=publicationFile" type="external">annual security report</a> published last week notes that Europe is faced with &#8220;a new dimension of [Islamist] terror," stating that &#8220;it has to be assumed that ISIS is planning further attacks in Europe, including Germany.&#8221;</p>
17 ISIS Militants Posed as Refugees to Reach Europe: German Official