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2022-12-18 Afghanistan

Islamic State Khorasan’s Transnational Capabilities Are Limited

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-18 02:01|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 The same sort of stuff was reported from Al Qaeda quarters in Afghanistan in 1998.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-12-18 07:53|| 2022-12-18 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I would write a longer comment but not in this device. Anyway, the ISK are currently purely mercenary and desperate for money. Unlike the Jamaat-e-Islami supported HizbMs and LeTs, the ISK is not a state player and cannot source funds directly from the billions in aid sent to the Taliban and 'slamabad. It is trying to establish territories which it can hold for ransom, and strongholds where the host nations' forces cannot hit them easily. Just as the African daesh factions do. Transnational abilities would require transnational aspirations. The ISK are goons trying to establish local fiefdoms and hope to one day create their own little shithole, whoring themselves out to anyone who needs muscle, terror for hire, assassination, big booms, anything.

I know why these 'experts' are harping about so called transnational abilities of the ISK. These are simply tactics to suck America into this fucked up Sunni calvinball again and to give the MICs and Islamist embeds an excuse for it. Nobody is being honest. A rocket flying across a border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan is not really a transnational threat. It doesn't mean they will hit Delaware if not stopped! As for the arrest of ISK affiliates in western nations, we really don't know the story of that. In India, Mauritius, Srilanka we are easily dealing with the undernourished sasquatches trying to be ISK.

If these experts were honest and loyal to their own national interests, they would leave the ISK to fight the Taliban and the Taliban to fight the Pakis and local State forces to take care of it all. However, there's probably great grift to be made in supplying the state actors against the non state actors.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-18 10:54|| 2022-12-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

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