"Who was the attacker? What was his motive? What saved the attack from being much worse than it was? Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter Extremism Project breaks it all down."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "As Afghanistan’s illicit drug trade flows globally, the international community needs to get serious about this threat not only as a matter of public health but also as counter-terrorism financing. Heroin and increasingly the more lucrative methamphetamine bleed through transport routes, making their way to Brussels, Berlin, and other European cities by way of Iran, Turkey and the Balkan states, via Central Asia as well as the Indian Ocean and East Africa. Meanwhile, the Taliban is funnelling these profits into a war chest it can put towards further violence and extremism."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joined GLOBAL with JJ Green to discuss the September 5, 2022 suicide bombing outside the consular section of Russia’s embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing a top diplomat, a Russian security guard and four Afghans. Dr. Schindler discussed who could have been responsible and why.

CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "Taliban rule has already allowed terrorist organizations to blossom in Afghanistan, and only more will grow, according to Currie and Nathan Sales, a former ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism. They said these groups view the U.S. and its Western allies as top targets."