MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said the UK could face more risk because of the withdrawal of NATO troops and
London: The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has heartened and emboldened extremists and could lead to the return of major al-Qaida-style attack plots against the West, the head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency said on Friday. MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said the UK could face more risk because of the withdrawal of NATO troops and the overthrow of the internationally backed Afghan government. Terrorist threats tend not to change overnight in the sense of directed plotting or training camps or infrastructure the sorts of things that al Qaida enjoyed in Afghanistan at the time of 9/11, McCallum told the BBC in a rare interview.
