Chilling warning to America: Anti-Taliban resistance leader warns terror attack on US soil is a 'matter of when, not if'

The leader of the anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan has issued a chilling warning that a new terrorist attack on America is a matter of 'when not if'.

Ahmad Massoud said terrorism is 'breeding' in the vacuum left by the U.S. pulling out in August 2021 and it is 'very possible ' extremists will now try to strike America or Europe. 

Massoud is the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary resistance leader known as the 'Lion of Panjshir,' who was assassinated by Al Qaeda two days before 9/11.

As he continues his father's cause the Biden administration's withdrawal from his country was the final nail in the coffin. 

The chaotic evacuation and bloodshed resulted in a moment he has spent years trying to stop: The return to power of the evil, radical Islamists who are sending his country back in time.

Now, Massoud, who has a degree in war studies from King's College, London, has a warning to the U.S. and foreign forces who left: Ignore Afghanistan at your peril.

The head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan says terrorist activity and recruitment has reached historic highs in the two-and-a-half years since the Kabul International Airport debacle. 

He told DailyMail.com: ‘An attack on US or European soil is very much possible now. It is not about a matter of if, it's a matter of when.’

Ahmad Massoud, the head of the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan: has a warning to the U.S. and foreign forces who left and betrayed them: Ignore the war-ravaged nation at your peril

Massoud says there is the same furious rivalry between terrorist factions that was seen in the build-up to 9/11.

In an interview with DailyMail.com - ahead of the release of his memoir In the Name of my Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan - he says his people feel abandoned and hopeless.

They have been left to fend for themselves against a brutal regime that is systematically stripping away basic rights.

The Afghan people now see the West as ‘hypocrites’, he says.

Foreign forces who spent years preaching about the need for a democracy have left the population in the hands of a government that has stopped girls going to school.

On September 9, 2001, Massoud’s life changed forever when his father - the legendary militia leader the 'Lion of Panjshir' - was assassinated by Al Qaeda

The resistance is almost solely fighting alone now Western forces have turned their backs on a country ravaged by war

The resistance has ammunition and are recruiting more soldiers, including Afghan Special Forces commandos who fought alongside western forces

They beat and tortured the women who dared to protest their abuses in the weeks after they ascended to power.

Massoud’s resistance is all that is left, and he needs help.

He believes President Joe Biden needs to rethink his Afghanistan policy, or it could have enormous consequences.

The growing problems he faces challenging the legitimacy of the Taliban government began with the peace deal signed by Donald Trump’s administration in February 2020.

His story of leading the resistance and the bid to restore peace comes in the seminal In the Name of my Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan, which is out on Tuesday April 30

As the withdrawal date approached in August 2021, he warned the U.S. there would be catastrophic results if conditions on the Taliban weren’t put in place.

They didn’t listen, and 20 years of work improving the lives of the Afghan people unraveled in a matter of days.

On September 9, 2001, Massoud’s life changed forever when his father was assassinated by Al Qaeda.

Two days later, the world changed forever when the Twin Towers fell.

Massoud was still a child, but his future in the resistance movement was already apparent.

As Afghanistan became the focal point of the War on Terror and the mammoth international manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, Massaoud followed in the footsteps of his legendary father who became known as the Lion of Panjshir.

He strives for the liberation of Afghanistan through diplomacy and a guerrilla warfare operation centered in their stronghold in Panjshir, north of the capital Kabul.

Educated in London, he has led mujahideen fighters who have spent decades fighting the Taliban and other terrorist factions.

He has also called on the world to not recognize the Taliban government.

The speed at which they seized control stunned the world and forced foreign forces to accelerate their departure.

But Massoud saw it coming, and even warned the U.S. of the calamity that would unfold.

For him, anyone who thinks the hardline Islamist group has changed should be ashamed of themselves and those who think they can govern a people subjected to years of poverty are delusional.

As Afghanistan became the focal point of the War on Terror and the mammoth international manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, Massaoud (second from left with his family) followed in the footsteps of his legendary father 

Massoud was still a child when his father was assassinated, but his future in the resistance movement was already apparent

When the Taliban returned to power for the first time since 2001, the majority of the population struggled to find enough money to eat.

Many years ago, while he was still in Panjshir, Massoud started working on his memoir.

He wanted to write as much as he could because he feared he might have to make the ultimate sacrifice and take his own life if the enemy arrived.

His story of leading the resistance and the bid to restore peace comes in the seminal In the Name of my Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan, which is out on Tuesday April 30.

He sets out a rational vision for the country of his birth where it is free from radical Islam and terror groups.

The resistance is almost solely fighting alone now Western forces have turned their backs on a country ravaged by war.

In the last three years he has been moving around the world and avoids staying in the same place for security

First it was the Soviet Union - where his father was a powerful guerilla commander of the resistance during the occupation between 1979 and 1989.

Then it was the US-led invasion. Now the nation’s starving people are under Taliban rule.

The population has been sent back in time.

Women’s rights have been taken away. Girls aren’t allowed to go to school.

Massoud fled to Tajikistan in September 2021 when the Taliban seized control of the Panjshir Valley

Just last week, two TV networks were suspended because, according to the government, they didn’t do enough to spread Islamic values.

The crackdown has been widespread, and shows no signs of stopping while they are still in government and given legitimacy on a world stage.

Countries like China have restored diplomatic relations with the Taliban and started up trade partnerships.

Massoud fled to Tajikistan in September 2021 when the Taliban seized control of the Panjshir Valley.

A year earlier he formed the National Resistance front of Afghanistan, and warned of a civil war if there wasn’t a new power-sharing agreement with the Taliban.

Now his resistance has thousands of fighters who have battled with the regime across the country, including inside the capital of Kabul.

In the last three years he has been moving around the world and avoids staying in the same place for security.

He is leading the resistance movement from outside Afghanistan.

Their numbers have grown as resentment for the Taliban has risen.

They have ammunition and are recruiting more soldiers, including Afghan Special Forces commandos who fought alongside western forces.

But their opponents are well-equipped and still have access to the billions of dollars in weapons left behind when foreign forces left two years ago.

Massoud is confident that if the Taliban launched an assault, they would be able to give them a stiff response.

For Massoud, the Biden administration's withdrawal was the final nail in the coffin 

But they still need help, especially from the allies who packed up and left after two decades of being a constant presence.

The Taliban are also getting as much as $60 million a week from countries like the U.S. and Japan through the United Nations.

While the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated, the world has shifted focus to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Massoud understands that there the West may feel it has more pressing matters to attend to.

But if Afghanistan remains completely abandoned, it won’t just be a disaster for his country but could have global implications.

Massoud told DailyMail.com that the threat of terrorism is rising in the vacuum created by the withdrawal and the proceeding peace deal.

‘The political situation is helping the Taliban massively. From Ukraine to the war on Gaza and, and many other things happening around the globe.

‘It helps the fatigue (from the West) when they are busy elsewhere,’.

‘There is a numbness in the West. They are forgetting about what's happening in Afghanistan.

‘If we received a fraction of support that Ukraine is receiving, or any other country, the Taliban would not be able to stand against us.

‘At least a quarter of Afghanistan would be liberated within months. Just the way that we were very much right and accurate with predicting the fall of a Kabul in Afghanistan.

He is urging the world to take notice of what is happening to the women in Afghanistan and how any shred of democracy is being eroded.

He says the Taliban are robbing Afghan people of their basic human rights, and the resistance is an effort out of desperation to get them back.

There is growing bitterness to the Taliban, but the Afghan people ‘feel hopeless, lonely, and completely empty-handed,’ Massoud says.

‘You are hearing from within the Taliban ranks that they are protesting against what's happening in Afghanistan.

‘They are not happy with the current situation, and it just makes it 10 times or a hundred times worse.

‘I'm in touch with people from different ethnicities and genders in Afghanistan. All of them are fed up and they want to do something.’

He says the best course of action is to resist militarily.

‘We cannot give in to their forceful occupation. We need to stand against it. That's what we are doing.’

The resistance started in one province and has now spread to 17 across the country.

But the place where they are having the most success, Massoud says, is in Kabul.

‘This is where we are hitting them the hardest. It shows our presence. We are having successes on a daily basis and we are becoming very successful in our tactics.

‘We were to even get as close as 500 meters to the Taliban headquarters’.

They have vowed to put special forces in urban areas and have frequently attacked Taliban checkpoints.

The Front said they killed seven members of the Taliban in an attack in front of the Serena Hotel, near the Presidential Palace. None of their members were hurt.

‘It just shows the capability and coverage of our units. Each day they are progressing and it's just getting better’.

Massoud insists more Western boots on the ground is the last thing Afghanistan needs to defeat the Taliban.

Military intervention has failed. The withdrawal of NATO allies after 20 years sparked the rapid return to the society Afghan people had fought so hard to leave behind.

But completely forgetting about Afghanistan is ‘wrong’ and will have far-reaching consequences that have already reared their ugly heads.

While there has already been a surge in terror attacks inside Afghanistan, there has also been a rise outside its borders.

The mass shooting at the Moscow concert hall that killed 130 people in March was carried out by ISIS-K (Islamic State Khorasan), a terror group that has already slaughtered thousands in Afghanistan.

The group launched dozens of attacks in the buildup to the collapse of the Afghanistan government in August 2021.

But their most notorious was a suicide blast at Kabul International Airport when thousands of desperate Afghans were trying to flee on evacuation flights.

The resistance started in one province and has now spread to 17 across the country. But the place where they are having the most success, Massoud says, is in Kabul. Members are pictured in the Panjshir Valley in 2021 

Thirteen American service members and hundreds of civilians were killed.

The operative who detonated the explosive was an ISIS militant who was freed from prison by the Taliban.

Former head of U.S. Central Command General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr has warned the threat from the Islamic State has grown since American forces left, and the desire to attack the U.S. is getting stronger.

Massaoud says the world just wants to bury their hands in the sand when it comes to Afghanistan.

‘If the world doesn't pay attention, it can be a breeding ground for terrorism,’ he says.

‘In the past two years, with such actions, with such numbness from the West, the terrorism and Afghanistan has been heavily breeding.

‘They are expanding and they're recruiting. They are recruiting more and more people inside Afghanistan to be foot soldiers for many other terrorist groups.

‘Not just the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Daesh (The Islamic State) but for many other groups.

‘An attack on US or European soil is very much possible now. It is not about a matter of if, it's a matter of when.’

Ahmad Massoud's In the Name of my Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan comes out on Tuesday April 30th