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| Afghanistan |
| How the Taliban helped the Islamic State’s rise in Afghanistan |
| 2016-08-04 |
| [QZ] In IS terminology, its forces in Afghanistan are known as the Khorasan Province. The ranks are made up of dissidents, holy warriors and defectors who have been squeezed out of the more established jihadi organizations and include Paks, Afghans and assorted international krazed killers. Its ameer, Hafiz Saeed Khan, hails from Pakistain’s tribal territory of Orakzai; he previously served as a particularly ruthless commander under Pak Taliban (TTP) leader Hakeemullah Masood, and has a track record of attacks on civilian targets and mosques. As the TTP fell into disarray after Hakeemullah was killed in a drone strike, Saeed led a contingent of his Orakzai and Afridi tribal comrades into the Khorasan Province. Abdul Raheem Moslem Dost, an Afghan veteran of the US’s detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and one of the few figures to have cultivated an image as an intellectual, also joined Khorasan Province--but he recently parted company with the group once again, publicly rejecting its policy of targeting civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred |