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 situations there are ripe for what he referred to as a jihadist “utopia.”
In an interview with The Cipher Temporary, Ahmad Zia Saraj mentioned the world wanted “a wakeup name,” on condition 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 mentioned the teams had taken benefit of implicit help from the Taliban, the liberating of hundreds of prisoners, and an increase within the affect of Islamic seminaries, or madrassahs.
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