(TOLO News): Addressing US service members in a hangar at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, Biden said the US went to Afghanistan with a clear purpose: \u201cto get the people who attacked us on 9\/11 and to prevent al Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a base from which to attack America in the future. To achieve that purpose \u2013 you achieved that purpose.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYear after year, deployment after deployment, American troops pursued the terrorist threat through some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAs we draw down, we\u2019re also going to focus on the urgent work of rebuilding over-the-horizon capabilities that\u2019ll allow us to take out al Qaeda if they return to Afghanistan but to focus on the threat that has metastasized,\u201d Biden said.\u00a0 He said that the greatest threat and likelihood of attack from al Qaeda or Daesh is not going to be from Afghanistan; \u201cit\u2019s going to be from five other regions of the world that have significantly more presence of both al Qaeda and organizational structures, including ISIS.\u201d This comes as US Defense Department last week confirmed that American troops and their NATO allies intend to be out of Afghanistan by early to mid-July, months ahead of the deadline announced by President Biden.\u00a0 On Friday, a key military base of US forces in downtown, the New Kabul Compound, also known as NKC, was handed over to the Ministry Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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