PULLOUT FALLOUT: ISIS-K Attacks Coming to USA Within a Matter of Months
For two decades, the United States spent countless taxpayer dollars, and untold American lives in Afghanistan, all for the sole purpose of preventing global terror. Our whole reason for entangling ourself in the middle eastern nation was to keep the Taliban from turning Afghanistan into a safe haven for terror, as it did in the years leading up to the attacks of September 11th.
After Joe Biden decided to pull US troops out of the region early, it only took eleven days for the Taliban to re-conquer Afghanistan.
Now, it may only take a few months for terror groups like ISIS-K to bring their horror show to to America.
U.S. intelligence shows that ISIS-K, the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate, could potentially have the ability to strike American targets in as little as six months, while al Qaeda can also increase its capabilities, a top Pentagon official said.
Colin Kahl, undersecretary of Defense for policy, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that neither terror group poses an imminent threat, but that they still must be taken seriously as that could change in a fairly short amount of time.
The numbers are worrisome to say the least.
“I think the intelligence community currently assesses that both ISIS-K and al Qaeda have the intent to conduct external operations, including against the United States. But neither currently has the capability to do so,” Kahl said. “We could see ISIS-K generate that capability in somewhere between six or 12 months. I think the current assessments by the intelligence community is that al Qaeda would take a year or two to reconstitute that capability.”
This concerning revelation is just the latest piece of fallout from the Biden administration’s disastrous choices in Afghanistan, where civilians and assorted contractors are still working to evacuate Americans and their allies, long after the US military has left.