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2021-08-28 Afghanistan

The view from India: What we know about the Islamic State Khorasan Province

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 Last para by DoD tool. Complete fabrication or half truth?

Some things the journos didn't mention, probably because they don't know. Ground realities and nitty gritty about IS-K.

The IS-K, maybe due to their brotherhood leanings, does not enjoy Islamabad's blessings or the jamaats' goodwill. For funding they serve as mercenaries and button men for whoever needs extra manpower, needs to false flag an attack on himself, for political assassination, spreading terror, discrediting a regime, whatever. One can also outsource a proxy suicide attack to them. Make the drop, and everything from explosive to an allah-mad sasquatch are ready to deliver your intended level of mayhem. They do not distinguish between clients over religion, country, loyalty, whatever. Sometimes, you can even have them sell out their own loyalists for the right price. Because IS-K need money. There's no ISI funneling them salaries like the Hizb or the Lashkar.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 02:15|| 2021-08-28 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 According to a Transnational Threats Project report by CSIS on Salafi-jihadist groups, IS-K's fighting force had fallen from 4000 to 800 from 2016 to 2018. When former Taliban commander, Qari Hekmatullah, pledged allegiance to IS-K in 2016 he had brought over several wahhabis to the group. His networks in north Afghanistan facilitated the Islamic State’s expansion in the province from March 2018 until his death by airstrike. They expanded in Pakistan because everyone from local jamaats to the ISI kept contracting them for political work.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 02:16|| 2021-08-28 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Later, to escape the FATF blacklist, Pakistan's 'anti-terrorist' [much like ANSDF's great warfighting] ops against them from 2019 onward only obfuscated their real numbers. But it is speculated they have been recruiting steadily from the wahhabis and forming covert cells in Pak, Afghanistan and India. Their grand ambitions, mentioned in their insipid charter read like a comic book villain speech. The rhetoric and random sasquatchery is just them fooling their own recruits and occasional financiers about world domination, but they're basically mercs and covert muscle.

This attack has been engineered by the ISI, I'm sure of it.

This is just one more ice cream cone that has been unwrapped for the US by the Pakistain ISI. I was thinking they'd get the taliban to do it, but those turbans are smartening up for the UNs and World banks. So... IS-K it is.

The perpetrators could be culled effectively only if the US does not pu$$yfoot around Pakistain. For that matter so could have the taliban, long ago before this fiasco ever reached the tables in Qatar.

Suggested reading: This article from a year or two back.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 02:18|| 2021-08-28 02:18|| Front Page Top

#4 With no intelligence assets on the ground, how has anyone determined who is responsible ?

Just curious.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-28 02:24|| 2021-08-28 02:24|| Front Page Top

#5 If the IS-K have done something, Besoeker, good chances they were pointed in the direction and given a detailed plan.

If you know the animal inside out, you see the signature right away. As for assets, there are always assets on ground, that's all I'll say.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 03:06|| 2021-08-28 03:06|| Front Page Top

#6 an allah-mad sasquatch

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-28 09:25|| 2021-08-28 09:25|| Front Page Top

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