America COMMENTARY


Afghan Exodus Opens Door to Chemical Strike on America


Terrorists will be able to carry out bin Laden’s master plan — wipe out the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, says Ronald Kessler.


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n what has to be the most brainless remark uttered by a U.S. president, Joe Biden said during a White House briefi ng: “What


interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al-Qaida gone? “We went to Afghanistan for the


express purpose of getting rid of al- Qaida in Afghanistan, as well as getting Osama bin Laden. And we did.” The Pentagon immediately con-


tradicted the president, saying al-Qai- da still exists in Afghanistan. As we learned with the August suicide attack at the Kabul airport, the terrorist group ISIS-K exists as well. As Biden spoke, the Taliban already


had freed thousands of al-Qaida and ISIS fi ghters from prisons in Afghani- stan. They quickly seized weapons, drones, and aircraft that had been paid for by the U.S. and left behind by the


defeated Afghan army. Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is want-


ed by the FBI for his alleged role in the January 2008 attack on a hotel in Kabul, returned triumphantly to the country. The Taliban placed him and his network in charge of security in Kabul.


Now, with CIA assets in Afghanistan


gone and an entire country capable of paying millions to leading scientists, the terrorists will be able to carry out bin Laden’s master plan — wipe out the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Going back to 1998, bin Laden


declared that acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, was his Islamic duty as part of his pursuit of jihad. Over the course of decades, bin Laden dispatched his lieutenants to


attempt to purchase or develop nuclear and biochemical WMD to infl ict mass casualties on the United States. In fact, for my book The Secrets of


the FBI, Dr. Vahid Majidi, an assis- tant FBI director who was the chief of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruc- tion Directorate, told me that when American forces invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, they found that al-Qaida was already at work on what Majidi called a “nascent” weapons of mass destruction eff ort involving chemical and biological weapons.


Biological weapons such as anthrax,


botulism, smallpox, plague, and ricin toxin alone could wipe out millions of Americans. Ricin kills cells by inhibiting protein synthesis. Within several days, the liver, spleen,


and kidneys of a person who inhales or ingests ricin stop working, resulting in death. Anthrax spores reach deep into the lungs when inhaled. They are then able to replicate in blood, travel to the lymph nodes, and produce toxins which lead to death. “The notion of probability of a WMD


attack being low or high is a moot point because we know the probability is 100 percent,” Majidi told me. “There is going to be an attack using


chemical, biological, or radiological material.” Blind to the threat he created by withdrawing from Afghanistan and dis- playing weakness to our enemies and allies, Biden uttered mindless phrases about ending the endless war and stop- ping nation building. These slogans have nothing to


NEW PERIL Turning over control of Afghanistan to the Taliban has dramatically increased the threat of a terror attack on the U.S. homeland.


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do with the reason we should have remained in Afghanistan — to protect our own safety. While no American wants to see a single U.S. soldier killed, the fact is we


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