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2021-10-07 Afghanistan
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Taliban arrest 4 IS members as extremist threat grows
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[AlAhram] The Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
arrested four Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
members and seized their documents and weapons north of the Afghan capital, the group's chief front man said Wednesday.
Zabihullah Mujahid said the operation was carried out Tuesday night by special unit forces in the Pashai area of Pagham district in Kabul province. He provided no additional details.
The arrests came as the Taliban leadership, which assumed control of the country after seizing the capital on Aug. 15, grapples with a growing security threat from the group known as Islamic State Khorasan, an IS affiliate. The holy warrior group has ramped up attacks since the Taliban consolidated power following the U.S. exit. It has grabbed credit for attacks including two deadly bombings in the capital in the last month.
IS claimed it targeted Tuesday night a vehicle carrying Taliban members with an bomb in District 1 in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, northeast of the capital, killing and wounding those onboard. It said a Taliban reinforcement patrol rushed to the area to help but IS fighters clashed with them, killing and wounding ``many.''
IS re-emerged in Afghanistan in 2020 after being weakened by a heavy U.S. bombing campaign directed against them in the eastern part of the country in 2019. The group grabbed credit for Sunday's bombing at Kabul's Eid Gah Mosque which killed five civilians. It has also grabbed credit for the horrific bombing on Aug. 26 that killed more than 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. military personnel outside the Kabul airport.
The Taliban have since launched many raids to root out IS cells.
Separately, two witnesses and a hospital official said two Taliban members were shot and killed and three civilians were maimed when unknown button men shot up a Taliban patrol in a vegetable market Wednesday morning in the northeastern city of Jalalabad. The hospital official said the hospital received two dead bodies and two maimed men.
They spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.
Jalalabad has emerged as a flashpoint in the rivalry between the Taliban and IS, with numerous attacks taking place there since the takeover. 
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