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Fears ISIS fighters are securing Afghan passports and changing identities
[TheNationalNews] Experts warn it will be harder to identify gunnies leaving the areaCounter-terrorism experts have raised concerns about the difficulty of tracking ISIS fighters in the future after reports some of them are changing their identities through the issuance of Afghan passports by the Taliban  ...Arabic for students... The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank said it has received reports from officials in countries neighbouring Afghanistan that the Taliban has been giving passports to gunnies following the group's takeover of the country last year. "This will, of course, complicate the identification of potential foreign gunnies leaving Afghanistan as these will likely travel with original Afghan passports and potentially changed identities", the CEP said. There have been fears that Afghanistan will become a safe haven for gunnies under Taliban rule. Last year UN envoy Deborah Lyons warned that ISIS has been "increasingly active" in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, with a sharp rise in the number of attacks and an expanding national footprint. "Once limited to a few provinces and Kabul, [ISIS-K] now seems to be present in nearly all provinces and is increasingly active," said Ms Lyons. 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the local affiliate of the radical group, has emerged as the main security threat to the Taliban since they regained control of Kabul and western forces pulled out after two decades in the country. The Taliban have been in conflict with ISIS-K for several years due to economic and ideological differences. CEP experts say the number of ISIS-K attacks has decreased recently but the group still poses a "significant" threat. "The campaign of terror attacks and liquidations claimed by ISIS-K in Afghanistan seems to have slowed down slightly towards the end of 2022," they said. "However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... nevertheless, in November, ISIS-K demonstrated its ability not only to conduct attacks in the west, north, and east of the county and, as in previous months, in Pakistain, ISIS-K also grabbed credit for an attack on a Shiite shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz at the end of October, more than 1000km from the Afghan border. "Therefore, ISIS-K remains a significant factor of insecurity within Afghanistan but increasingly also in neighbouring countries." Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-23 |
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