Afghanistan: US predicts that in two years Al Qaeda could rearm and become a threat again

The director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, said Tuesday that within two years than In Qaeda it could have been rearmed and be ready to be a “threat”.

“The current assessment, probably conservative, is that in one or two years Al Qaeda has developed some kind of capacity to at least threaten the homeland“Berrier said during a National Security event, he reports The New Times.

While the Taliban pledged in the February 2020 peace agreements with the United States not to allow Afghanistan to be used as a base for terrorist operations, the White House office The first reports have already arrived that Al Qaeda, a traditional ally of the insurgent group, has already carried out its first actions.

Berrier noted that the challenge now is to develop other ways to “have access” to Afghanistan, while Security and Intelligence agencies continue their actions in relation to China and Russia.

Match with Lieutenant General Berrier, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen, who also noted that within two years Al Qaeda will once again be “a threat” to the United States before they can even be detected.

Although US authorities have not yet confirmed the presence of former al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power a month ago, some reports claim that Osama bin Laden’s former security chief, Amin al-Haq, has returned to the country.

However, the director of National Intelligence, April D. Haines, has so far ruled out Afghanistan’s biggest security threat to the United States and has targeted Yemen, Somalia, Syria and Iraq as potential threats in this regard.

Nevertheless, the same American authorities have been acknowledging for months that the main threat to the national security of the United States is “terrorism interior” of the groups of the extreme right and the white supremacism.

The UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons said Thursday that the Taliban have already “visibly welcomed and sheltered” Al Qaeda members and called on the international community to unite to prevent the collapse of the Afghan economy.

Two days ago, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the leader of the terrorist group, Aiman ​​al-Zawahiri, posted a video to refute rumors about his alleged death after in November there was speculation about his death from natural causes.

The one-hour recording has been posted on and on social media praises the January 1 car bombing of a Russian military base in Tel Saman, Syria, claimed at the time by Huras in Din, an al-Qaeda affiliate.

“The current phase requires us to exhaust the enemy until he cries and whines because of the economic and military bleeding. One of the most prominent operations in this regard has been that of Tel Saman.”, He stated to Zawahiri.

“This operation is a practical example of how to break the military pressure of the enemy,” he said. praise the attacks “on enemy soil.”

To Zawahiri, a surgeon by profession, was appointed al-Qaeda leader in 2011 after the death of Osama bin Laden in a US special forces operation in Pakistan.

After Bin Laden’s death, In the Zawahiri he took command of the organization, which was reduced to a network with many branches but without a central leadership, weakened by the successive losses of its commanders and the alleged ill health of the Egyptian.

(With information from Europa Press)

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