{"id":925151,"date":"2021-10-26T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=925151"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:44:01","slug":"senior-pentagon-official-terrorist-group-in-afghanistan-could-have-capability-to-attack-us-in-as-little-as-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-pentagon-official-terrorist-group-in-afghanistan-could-have-capability-to-attack-us-in-as-little-as-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Pentagon Official: Terrorist Group In Afghanistan Could Have Capability To Attack US In As Little As Six Months"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fsenior-pentagon-official-terrorist-group-in-afghanistan-could-have-capability-to-attack-us-in-as-little-as-six-months%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=925151&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><\/div>\n<p>Terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan could be able to \u2013 and intend to \u2013 attack the U.S. in as little as six months under certain circumstances, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Kahl, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Tuesday regarding the chaotic withdrawal from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/how-many-people-state-department-evacuated-afghanistan-since-august-31\/\">Afghanistan<\/a> at the end of August. Kahl said that \u201ccurrent assessments by the intelligence committee\u201d indicates both ISIS-K and Al-Qaida intend to conduct international operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually fairly certain that they have the intention to do so,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could see ISIS-K generate that capability in somewhere between six or 12 months, according to current assessments by the intelligence committee,\u201d Kahl also said. \u201cAnd for al-Qaida, it would take a year or two to reconstitute that capability. We have to remain vigilant against that possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Lawmakers appeared worried at the news, with Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst pointing out that the revelation \u201cdoesn\u2019t sound like a low risk.\u201d Kahl maintained that despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/pakistan-taliban-united-states-afghanistan-antony-blinken\/\">assessment<\/a> from the intelligence community, the risk to America \u201cis at its lowest point since Sept. 11, 2001,\u201d Military Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/afghanistan\/2021\/10\/26\/terrorist-groups-in-afghanistan-could-launch-international-strikes-within-six-months-officials-warn\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Director for Operations for the Joint Staff Lt. Gen. James Mingus explained that the intelligence community estimates come with a caveat \u2013 it\u2019s \u201cbased on no U.S. or coalition intervention,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/afghanistan\/2021\/10\/26\/terrorist-groups-in-afghanistan-could-launch-international-strikes-within-six-months-officials-warn\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\u201cThe goal would be to keep those time horizons where they\u2019re at now or push them even further,\u201d Mingus told lawmakers, adding that the expectation is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/republicans-letter-joni-ernst-antony-blinken-afghanistan-taliban-terrorist-organization\/\">Taliban<\/a> will help because the group is at odds with ISIS-K. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/25\/isis-iskp-afganistan-attacks\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;ISIS Affiliate Group Increases Attacks On Religious Minorities In Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has vowed to \u201cmaintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan\u201d even without a ground presence, as he noted during remarks on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\u201cWe have what\u2019s called over-the-horizon capabilities, which means we can strike terrorists and targets without American boots on the ground \u2014 or very few, if needed,\u201d Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/31\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan\/\">said.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan could be able to \u2013 and intend to \u2013 attack the U.S. in as little as six months under certain circumstances, a senior Pentagon official &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925151","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\/925151","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925151\/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=925151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}