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Afghanistan
ISIS in Afghanistan kidnapped wives, daughters for forced marriage: Nicholson
2017-04-16
As did the Taliban, who also took beautiful young boys for not marrying.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the US forces in Afghanistan leading the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) General John Nicholson told news hounds in 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....
that the deadly Arclight airstrike against the ISIS terrorist group was carried out in response to the barbaric acts of the terror group affiliates, including the kidnapping of the wives and daughters for forced marriage to their fighters.

Gen. Nicholson further added that the group has sent jacket wallahs to attack peaceful demonstrations and killed and maimed hundreds of civilians and dragged elders out of their homes in 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..
, beheaded them in front of their families.

He said night’s complex strike in Achin district of Nangarhar was part of alliances campaign to destroy ISIS-K in Afghanistan in 2017.

"The weapon used, the GBU-43, is designed to destroy caves and tunnels in Achin Nangarhar," Gen. Nicholson said, adding that "ISIS-K used tunnel and minefields to move around battlefield, protect themselves from Afghan & US Forces in Achin Nangarhar."

Stressing that GBU-43 was the right weapon considering the condition in Achin, Gen. Nicholson said "I want to assure you that our forces took every possible precaution to prevent civilian casualties."

"We have US Forces at the site and we see no evidence of civilian casualties nor have there been reports," he added.

Gen. Nicholson also added that Afghan Army and Commandos are leading this fight against these barbaric bandidos bandidos krazed killers on behalf of the people of Afghanistan.

According to Gen. Nicholson, the alliance is united with the Afghan government to prevent bandidos bandidos krazed killers from establishing safe havens in Afghanistan.

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