FBI Director Christopher Wray said the US withdrawal from Afghanistan would once again make the country a safe haven for terrorist groups.
“We are, of course, concerned that there will be an opportunity for a safe haven to be re-created there, which is certainly something we’ve seen in the past, and allow a foreign terrorist organization to operate more freely in the region,” said Wray, while testifying during a house Homeland Security Committee briefing on Wednesday evening, September 22end.
The FBI stressed that the situation in Afghanistan could incite terrorists.
“Most importantly, we’re concerned that foreign terrorist organizations will have an opportunity to re-constitute, to plot, conspire in a space that’s much harder for us to collect intelligence and operate against than was the case previously,” Wray said.
