Ex-CIA Operative Warns of Terror Attack – 60 Minutes

Henry Crumpton a former CIA operative with the most direct experience fighting al Qaeda on the ground and who predicted the 9/11 attacks has “no doubt” the terrorist organization will strike U.S. soil again and will talk about this and more in an interview on 60 Minutes, Sunday evening.

Henry Crumpton, the ex-CIA mastermind of the war on the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan right after 9/11, also tells 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan the U.S. needs to be in Pakistan making deals with locals to fight the Qaeda and Taliban leaders hiding there.

Logan’s story, including a rare interview with the head of the Afghan intelligence service, will be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

“There will be an attack in the homeland …sadly…I think we’ll be hit again,” says Crumpton. Asked by Logan whether he had any doubts, he replies, “None.” The former CIA man on the ground in Afghanistan days after 9/11 says the future attack could be greater than the one that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.

Crumpton is in the best position to make such a statement. It was he, with a few other CIA operatives, who enlisted Afghan tribal fighters to dislodge al-Qaeda and their Taliban hosts from Afghanistan in the weeks after the 9/11 attack.

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