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ISIS not a significant force in Afghanistan, CEO Abdullah says
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Amid concerns that the loyalists 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 are gaining foothold in Afghanistan, the Chief Executive Officer, Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
 has said the presence of the loyalists of the terror is not a significant force.

Admitting that the terror group poses threats not only to Afghanistan but the entire region, CEO Abdullah said the Afghanistan is determined to deal with the terror group loyalists as the Afghan government continues to work with its international allies to deal with the security challenges.

CEO Abdullah is currently on a state visit to Iran to discuss issues of bilateral interest between Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
 and Tehran.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
 Abdullah said the loyalists of ISIS terror group in Afghanistan have good resources. "There is no doubt that they [Daesh [Islamic State] terrorists] have good resources," Abdullah told Press TV during an interview.

"It [Daesh [Islamic State]] is a threat. It is a threat for Afghanistan. It is a threat for region. It is a threat for global peace and Afghanistan is determined to deal with it and at the same time it is not as significant force in Afghanistan as Taliban," he added.

The remarks by Abdullah comes as the loyalists of the terror group have recently stepped up insurgency activities and anti-government propaganda as they continue to expand foothold in the country.

The terror group also launched an FM radio late last year in eastern 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..
 province and later issued a propaganda video which purportedly shows the cruel terrorist activities of the terror group in Afghanistan.

The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter also warned regarding the emergent threat of the terror group during a surprise visit to Afghanistan late in December last year, however he said the threat posed by the terror group is being tracked very closely as they have started creating 'little nests' in Afghanistan.


Posted by: Fred 2016-01-07
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