{"id":595,"date":"2021-09-23T23:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=595"},"modified":"2021-09-23T23:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:40:41","slug":"fbi-director-afghanistan-is-once-again-a-safe-haven-for-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/politics\/595\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director: Afghanistan is once again a safe haven for terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said the US withdrawal from Afghanistan would once again make the country a safe haven for terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019ve seen in the past, and allow a foreign terrorist organization to operate more freely in the region,&#8221; said Wray, while testifying during a house Homeland Security Committee briefing\u00a0on Wednesday evening, September 22end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI stressed that the situation in Afghanistan could incite terrorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most importantly, we\u2019re concerned that foreign terrorist organizations will have an opportunity to re-constitute, to plot, conspire in a space that\u2019s much harder for us to collect intelligence and operate against than was the case previously,&#8221; Wray said.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said the US withdrawal from Afghanistan would once again make the country a safe haven for terrorist groups. &#8220;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\u2019ve seen in the past, and allow a foreign terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":114,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}