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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban leadership worried of losing fighters and income to ISIS: Russian envoy |
| 2015-12-31 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban leadership is concerned of losing fighters and income from lucrative sources to the emergent 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan, it has been reported. "The rapid growth of this group [IS] that appeared in Afghanistan in summer of 2014, its intention to 'swallow' other bad boy groups, draw faceless myrmidons of all kinds into its ranks, in particular Taliban fighters themselves, redistribute sources of income, including such lucrative sources as drug trafficking -- all these factors are very worrying for the Taliban leadership," Russian special presidential envoy on Afghanistan, Foreign Ministry's second Asian department director Zamir 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 Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ov quoted in a report by TASS news agency said. Kabulov further added "The Taliban movement has been strengthening its positions across Afghanistan lately, including in the north of the country." "They demonstrate intentions to establish full and stable control over separate regions and make attempts to seize administrative centers," Kabulov said, adding that Taliban took control over the provincial center, Kunduz, for several days in September for the first time since 2001. According to Kabulov, the loyalists of ISIS terror group demonstrates a hostile position in turn toward the Taliban leaders. "In April 2015 IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... made accusations against Taliban leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... . Several days later media reported that IS and Taliban proclaimed jihad against each other. In spring-summer of 2015 two groups clashed in different Afghan provinces several times," he added. He also added that confrontations between Taliban and ISIS terror group has flared up between Taliban groups and Taliban-ISIS loyalists following the announcement of Taliban group founder and supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's death in July this year and the appointment of new Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. |
| Posted by:Fred |