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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the exit from Afghanistan could leave the United States vulnerable to an attack similar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Due to Taliban control of the country, the U.S. is vulnerable to attack, and the risk has increased since last year, the former secretary of state said.
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“We are more likely to be attacked like New York City was 20-some years ago. We’re more likely to be attacked from that place today than we were just one year ago,” Pompeo said while speaking with John Catsimatidis on the Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday.
Pompeo also blasted President Joe Biden’s exit strategy from the country in 2021, referencing an attack on U.S. soldiers during the exit that left 13 troops dead.
“We are now one year from what everybody saw with their own eyes: Americans left behind, 13 Americans dead, the Afghan people clinging to American aircraft as we turned tail and ran out of that country,” Pompeo said.
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Next month marks 21 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center in New York City, in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and on board the four commercial planes used to conduct the attacks. The attacks were orchestrated by the terrorist group al Qaeda, which was situated in Afghanistan in 2001, leading the U.S. to begin 20 years of involvement in the Middle Eastern country before last year’s withdrawal.
