Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told senators on Sunday that they would update an assessment on the timeline of a terrorist group reemergence in Afghanistan from a 'medium threat' in two years time due to the recent events
* Mark Milley told senators he will update an assessment on the timeline of a terrorist group reemergence in Afghanistan up from a two-year 'medium threat'
* The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin briefed a bipartisan group of senators on Sunday
* They said President Biden and top military officials underestimated how quickly the Taliban would retake Afghanistan after the troop withdrawal
* 'Two takeaways for me – We're gonna leave tens of thousands of people behind... and the timeline in terms of threats has accelerated,' a source on the call said
Afghanistan fell to the Taliban much faster than President Joe Biden and his top military leaders predicted, a Sunday report from Axios reveals.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told a bipartisan group of senators during a Sunday call that a past assessment of how soon the terrorist groups will reemerge in Afghanistan will drastically speed up due to the events over the last week.
On the call with Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked if they will revise the assessment given to Congress in June that classified a 'medium' risk of terrorist group reconstituting within two years of withdrawal.
'Yes,' Milley responded about changing the threat assessment report, according to Axios.
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Update #1: Concerns over US terror threats rising as Taliban hold grows (AP)
Update #2: Top US general says terror groups could reconstitute in Afghanistan sooner than expected (CNN)
Update #3: Scoop: Joint Chiefs chairman moves up terrorist threat in Afghanistan (Axios)
WNU Editor: I saw a video today of thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners being released from Afghan prisons. Axios has a good report here .... Thousands of prisoners freed by Taliban could pose threat to U.S. (Axios).
Here is an easy prediction.
The Taliban are already boasting in their forums on how they defeated the great US superpower, and I would not be surprised if in the coming months we will be seeing a massive influx of Jihadists from around the world to Afghanistan.
What is even more troubling is that the Taliban now control a massive arsenal of American weapons that former Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden could only dream about.
Will the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies be motivated to use these weapons against the U.S. and its allies?
If history is any indication, the answer is yes.
