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Afghanistan
Mostly Pakistani nationals fighting for ISIS in Afghanistan: Taliban
2015-08-29
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has claimed that the ISIS affiliates operating in Afghanistan are mostly Pak nationals with few young Afghan men recruited by the group.

Taliban also ruled out that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) terrorist group is based in Afghanistan, insisting that the krazed killer groups are fighting under the flag and policy of Taliban in Afghanistan.

"People under the name of Daesh are currently only operating in one or two districts of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
who are mostly Pak nationals with a very small number of young locals," Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujaihid said.

He was responding to questions of a local media outlet in Afghanistan. "They cross over the border from Pakistain and there is no one else operating anywhere under this name in Afghanistan," Mujahid added.

The remarks by Mujahid comes amid growing concerns that the ISIS affiliates are looking to gain foothold in Afghanistan.

This comes as Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) declared as a terrorist organization by the United States declared it is now part of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.

The group recently released a video which purportedly shows the group's leader Usmon Ghazi and his fighters taking oath of allegiance to ISIS terror group and its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
.

The allegiance by IMU to ISIS terrorist group was followed almost two weeks after the death of the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was confirmed.

IMU issued a statement earlier this month demanding clarification from the Taliban regarding Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
's death while accusing the group lying his death.

Posted by:Fred

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