On the anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. declassified an intelligence assessment that amounts to an obituary for the terror group in Afghanistan.
But career U.S. intelligence professionals argue that these more pessimistic accounts are wrong. U.N. reporting “describes an [al-Qaeda] presence that does not align with the [diminished] threat they present,” one senior intelligence officer told me. “I haven’t seen any data to support the idea that there is any real resurgence,” said Michael Leiter, a former chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, in an interview.
Against the renegade ISIS-K, the Taliban has conducted a brutal but effective campaign. “The Taliban has intensified [counterterror] operations this year, which prompted some ISIS-K leaders to relocate to outside of Afghanistan,” notes the declassified intelligence report, adding that “Taliban raids in Afghanistan have removed at least eight key ISIS-K leaders.”
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