WASHINGTON, Sep 14. US intelligence agencies believe that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda * will be able to restore its potential to carry out terrorist attacks on American soil in one to two years, said the head of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Scott Burrier. «The current assessment is that that al-Qaeda * will probably take one to two years to build up some capacity to at least threaten our country, «said Berrier, quoted by the New York Times.
The leader of al-Qaeda * appeared on video on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that countries such as Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq are recognized by the intelligence community as a greater security threat to the United States than Afghanistan. At the same time, she stressed that such an assessment was made before the fall of the Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani.
Britain warned of the threat of a new «September 11» In early August, the Taliban (the movement is banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist one) stepped up their offensive against the government forces of Afghanistan, entered Kabul on August 15, and the next day announced that the war was over. The last two weeks of August from the airport of Kabul, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending the nearly 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan. On September 6, the Taliban announced that Panjshir, the last of the 34 Afghan provinces, had come under their control in fighting. The next day, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced. It will be headed by Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who served as foreign minister during the first Taliban * rule and has been under UN sanctions since 2001. Amir Khan Mutaki became the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Yakub became the head of the Ministry of Defense, and Mullah Sarajuddin Haqqani became the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All of them are members of the Taliban movement *, and ethnically belong to the Pashtun tribal associations of Durrani and Gilzai. * Terrorist organizations banned in Russia
