U.S. Spies See Signs of al Qaeda Fighters Returning to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies are looking at early signs that al Qaeda militants have started to return to Afghanistan, a senior formal claimed Tuesday, immediately after they dispersed from the nation in response to the U.S. counterterrorism work there.
“We are presently commencing to see some of the indications of some possible motion of al Qaeda to Afghanistan,” David Cohen, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, claimed at a conference. “But it is early days and we will certainly maintain a very shut eye on that.”