Al Qaeda could rebuild in Afghanistan in a year or two, U.S. officials say.
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Source: NY Times
Al Qaeda could rebuild inside Afghanistan in one to two years, top intelligence officials said Tuesday, noting that some members of the terrorist group had already returned to the country.
Earlier in the year, top Pentagon officials said Al Qaeda could reconstitute in two years, then told lawmakers after the fall of the Afghanistan government they were revising that timeline.
The new timeline is not a drastic shift, but reflects the reality that the Taliban have a limited ability to control the borders of Afghanistan. While the Taliban have long fought the Islamic State affiliate, they are established allies of Al Qaeda. Though the Taliban pledged in the February 2020 peace agreement with the United States not to let Afghanistan be used by terrorist groups, analysts have said such promises ring hollow.
The current assessment probably conservatively is one to two years for Al Qaeda to build some capability to at least threaten the homeland, Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Tuesday at the annual Intelligence and National Security Summit.
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twin_ghost
(435 posts)Al-Qaeda no longer exists because Osama Bin Laden was it's leader and he is dead. Some other Islamic attack group may rise from the ashes though. Just sayin...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)suppression of women.
JohnSJ
(92,394 posts)As for the argument that the Taliban couldnt control their borders, guess what, when we were there we couldnt either
ISIS+ was there when we were there along with militant groups
To re-occupy Afghanistan is not the answer
bin laden was eliminated in Pakistan through a limited attack
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)the threat to the DoD budget.
Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)This is analysis.
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