Pompeo warns US could see 9/11-design and style attack following Afghanistan exit

Jack Birle

August 29, 09:56 AM August 29, 09:56 AM

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the exit from Afghanistan could go away the United States vulnerable to an attack identical to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Due to Taliban management of the region, the U.S. is vulnerable to assault, and the chance has enhanced considering the fact that previous yr, the previous secretary of point out reported.

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"We are additional most likely to be attacked like New York Town was 20-some yrs in the past. We're far more most likely to be attacked from that area these days than we were being just a person yr in the past," Pompeo claimed although talking with John Catsimatidis on the Cats Roundtable radio exhibit on Sunday.

Pompeo also blasted President Joe Biden's exit tactic from the country in 2021, referencing an assault on U.S. soldiers during the exit that remaining 13 troops dead.

"We are now one yr from what everyone observed with their very own eyes: People in america remaining guiding, 13 Us citizens useless, the Afghan individuals clinging to American plane as we turned tail and ran out of that place," Pompeo said.

Future month marks 21 a long time given that the 9/11 terrorist assaults, which killed almost 3,000 people today in the Entire world Trade Heart in New York Town, in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and on board the 4 business planes applied to perform the assaults. The assaults were being orchestrated by the terrorist team al Qaeda, which was situated in Afghanistan in 2001, major the U.S. to start out 20 a long time of involvement in the Center Japanese place just before very last year's withdrawal.