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2022-12-13 Afghanistan
Kabul Hotel Shook by Blasts; Here's Why Afghanistan is on Boil and Why Islamic State Offshoot is Linked to These Attacks
[News18] The 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....
mostly attacks embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions as they tend to generate lots of international media attention


Armed men opened fire inside a hotel in central Kabul that housed some Chinese citizens in the latest violence in Afghanistan as Taliban
...Arabic for students...
tries to stabilise after the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces.

The firing was continuing in the hotel in the Shahr-e-Naw area and a fire broke out on one of the floors, the sources said, adding that they expect casualties.

Residents of the area said the attack was carried out at a building where Chinese and other foreigners usually stay. The shooting continued after they heard a powerful explosion.

The attack is one of the several attacks carried on embassies, hostels and places housing foreigners. Though no terror group have grabbed credit for the attacks, but it is believed to be carried out by the local offshoot of the Islamic State group, known as Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), which is infamous for carrying out such suicide kabooms.

Behind several of these attacks, the Islamic State (IS) has grabbed credit for the strikes.

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is a transnational network that grew out of Pakistain and expanded its operational footprint into Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power.

The group is now Afghan-centric but remains active in parts of Pakistain. ISKP’s wars against the Pak and Afghan Taliban governments are comprised of interconnected kinetic Death Eater campaigns and media warfare efforts, according to a report in The Diplomat.

The terrorist group views the Taliban as a kind of vector for Pakistain to spread its influence in Afghanistan and accused the new government of "working hard to implement the Pak version of Islam designed by ISI and CIA in US intelligence headquarters of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
The group mostly attacks embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions as they tend to generate lots of international media attention.

ISKP CARRYING OUT ATTACKS SINCE 2016
Though the terrorist group is active post-Taliban takeover, the ISKP has been carrying out attacks as early as 2016.

In January 2016, the Islamic State carried out a suicide kaboom against the Pak consulate in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. Three murderous Moslems wearing boom jackets detonated explosives and killed "several Pak intelligence officers" as well as dozens of people.

During 2021, there were multiple attacks on diplomatic targets in Jalalabad, including the liquidation of a Pak consulate member in July and a series of bombings near the Indian consulate that killed several Taliban.

In August 26, 2021, the group carried out the famous blast at the Kabul airport that caused mass casualties as Afghan nationals, foreigners and embassies were evacuating from Afghanistan.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-13 01:21|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
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#1 Who cares, may the entire country spin into an irretrievable decay.
Posted by 49 Pan 2022-12-13 15:05||   2022-12-13 15:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't you tell me you got blasted in Kabul?
Something about a Russian masseuse?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-13 22:00||   2022-12-13 22:00|| Front Page Top

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