SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — The final Afghan head of intelligence earlier than the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan believes terrorist teams have regained a foothold within the nation, and that circumstances there are ripe for what he referred to as a jihadist “utopia.”
In an interview with The Cipher Temporary, Ahmad Zia Saraj stated the world wanted “a wakeup name,” provided that greater than a dozen regional Islamist terrorist teams have reconstituted operations in Afghanistan because the 2021 U.S. withdrawal and return of Taliban rule. Saraj stated the teams had taken benefit of implicit help from the Taliban, the releasing of 1000’s of prisoners, and an increase within the affect of Islamic seminaries, or madrassahs.
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