Hundred Of Thousands Of Americans At Risk From Resurgent ISIS-K In Afghanistan, Top General Warns

Army Gen. Michael Kurilla is the commander of U.S. Central Command. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee how the ISIS-K network, which has been resurrected in Afghanistan, can launch an attack on U.S. and Western interests abroad in just six months. “with little or no warning,” However, hundreds of thousands of Americans could also be at risk.

Kurilla’s assessment was made 19 months after President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left the Taliban running the country.

Kurilla answered Kurilla’s question about the time it takes ISIS K to create the ability to conduct operations externally. “It is my commander’s estimate that they can do an external operation against U.S. or Western interests abroad in under six months with little to no warning.”

“I think it is a higher probability overseas than it is in the homeland,” Kurilla stated.

“If you assess six months against Europe or Asia what would you assess would be the timeline against the homeland?” Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton asked.

“I think it’s hard to put a timeline on that but I asses that they could in as little as six months with little to no warning,” Kurilla replied.

“When you add up all the troops you have in your area of responsibility and Americans who are there for business or tourism or pilgrimages on any given day, what are we talking about? Probably hundreds of thousands, right?” Cotton is required.

“At least,” Kurilla spoke bluntly.

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“So hundreds of thousands within range of a terrorist attack, in your assessment in a mere six months from Afghanistan,” Cotton is stated.

Kurilla simply nodded.

Kurilla also stated that intelligence quality in the U.S. has dropped since Biden’s withdrawal. “broad counters” It is possible to determine the cause of an attack, but the U.S. has no way to prove it. “granularity to see the full picture.”

“In Afghanistan, the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops nearly two years ago left a security vacuum that Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS have filled,” Roger Wicker, a Mississippi GOP senator stated. “The Biden administration promised us that the Department of Defense would carry out counter-terrorism operations against terrorists in Afghanistan without any U.S troops present, but the United States only has conducted one strike in over a year. Both ISIS and al Qaeda affiliates were encouraged by the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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