WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials say al-Qaida could begin to threaten the homeland from Afghanistan within one to two years, echoing warnings that were issued prior to the U.S. withdrawal ending its 20-year war.
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Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, who leads the Defense Intelligence Agency, gave that estimated timeframe Tuesday while speaking at the Intelligence & National Security Summit.
David Cohen, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said the U.S. already had detected “some of the indications of some potential movement of al-Qaida to Afghanistan.”
Experts have long said the Taliban still maintains ties to al-Qaida, which took sanctuary in Afghanistan prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Counterterrorism experts estimated prior to the withdrawal that al-Qaida had several hundred fighters in Afghanistan.
Thank you to those who are running Biden’s White House. When not if the next attack comes are you going to try to blame trump for YOUR failures can’t blame Biden his senility is evident to all but hashoner another fool
Idiotic article and fear mongering by this yutz and mainstream media. Al Quida makes threats every day, but not from Afghanistan. They are mortal enemies of Taliban and won’t get a foothold there. They were more active under the corrupt-US backed puppet gov’t that fled. Al Quida is active in Yemen, Mali, Chad, Mozambique, etc, but not Afghanistan.