{"id":703110,"date":"2021-08-31T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703110"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:35:52","slug":"former-mi6-head-says-bidens-withdrawal-will-inspire-terrorists-to-attack-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-mi6-head-says-bidens-withdrawal-will-inspire-terrorists-to-attack-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MI6 Head Says Biden\u2019s Withdrawal Will \u2018Inspire\u2019 Terrorists To Attack the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-mi6-head-says-bidens-withdrawal-will-inspire-terrorists-to-attack-the-west%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.566160520607\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">US and NATO allies in a &#8216;much weaker position,&#8217; Secret Intelligence Service chief Sir John Sawers says<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-736x490.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-178253526-1400x931.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tJohn Sawers, chief of Britain&#8217;s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), arrives in Downing Street ahead of a meeting of the National Security Council in central London on August 28, 2013. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2021 12:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"58.415254237288\">\n<p>The former head of the British intelligence agency MI6 on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9942881\/Biden-let-Afghans-Ex-British-military-chief-slams-president-withdrawal.html\">said<\/a> the Biden administration&#8217;s withdrawal from Afghanistan will &#8220;inspire&#8221; terrorists to attack Western nations, according to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sir John Sawers, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 2009 to 2014, said there is &#8220;no doubt&#8221; that extreme Islamist groups &#8220;celebrated&#8221; the United States&#8217; withdrawal and that it &#8220;raises the risk of them being inspired to more violence in Western countries.&#8221; He added that Biden&#8217;s decision also left the United States, United Kingdom, and NATO allies in a &#8220;much weaker position,&#8221; as terrorist groups will now be given &#8220;some operating space&#8221; in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as U.K. and U.S. citizens as well as their Afghan allies still remain trapped in Afghanistan. The <em>Guardian<\/em> reported Monday that Labour MPs are scrambling to evacuate more than 7,000 British constituents and family members left behind. A State Department official also confirmed about 250 U.S. citizens remain.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.K. defense staff chief Lord David Richards, who served in Afghanistan, echoed Sawers&#8217;s remarks, calling the withdrawal a &#8220;defeat&#8221; for the West.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is expected to address the public on the withdrawal this afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security US and NATO allies in a &#8216;much weaker position,&#8217; Secret Intelligence Service chief Sir John Sawers says  John Sawers, chief of Britain&#8217;s Secret Intelligence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}