{"id":36717,"date":"2021-09-10T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/10\/mi5-chief-taliban-afghan-victory-has-boosted-extremists"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:58:36","slug":"mi5-chief-taliban-afghan-victory-has-boosted-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36717","title":{"rendered":"MI5 chief: Taliban Afghan victory has boosted extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken McCallum says his agency has helped stop six \u2018late-stage\u2019 terrorist attacks during pandemic<\/p>\n<p>MI5\u2019s chief said the Taliban\u2019s recapture of Afghanistan had given Islamist extremists \u201ca psychological boost\u201d in an interview where he also said the spy agency had helped foil six \u201clate-stage\u201d terrorist attacks during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Ken McCallum, giving his first interview since last month\u2019s fall of Kabul, said Islamist extremists had been \u201chardened and emboldened\u201d \u2013 and would require special vigilance from the domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/10\/mi5-chief-taliban-afghan-victory-has-boosted-extremists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken McCallum says his agency has helped stop six \u2018late-stage\u2019 terrorist attacks during pandemicMI5\u2019s chief said the Taliban\u2019s recapture of Afghanistan had given Islamist extremists \u201ca psychological boost\u201d in an interview where he also said the spy agen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,319,471,1345,4,61,44,52,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-islamic-state","category-mi5","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36718,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36717\/revisions\/36718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}