...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....
(IS) group’s attempts to expand in the country, arresting hundreds of people involved in plotting attacks on government, diplomatic, and civilian targets.
The military's top front man, Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa, said on September 1 that authorities have incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
309 people associated with the bully boy group.
The comments were a rare acknowledgment by a senior Pak official that IS faceless myrmidons have had an active presence in the country.
Bajwa said most of those detained were established Pak faceless myrmidons who had switched loyalties to the IS group, but some 25 were foreigners including Afghans and Syrians.
Some were involved in assaults on the media.
Of a core group of 20 organizers, Bajwa said, all were captured, except one "who I am sure is not in Pakistain."
He added that IS fighters were still present in the Afghan provinces of 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..
, Khost, and Kunar, which lie along the border with Pakistain.
The leader of the IS group's branch in Afghanistan and Pakistain, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
Khan, was killed in an air strike in July in a border region between the two countries.