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Afghanistan
Taliban deny cooperating with Daesh in Afghan attack
2017-08-08
[Iran Press TV] The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
have rejected reports they used imported muscle and cooperated with ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Death Eaters in fighting at a remote village in northern Afghanistan this weekend where officials said dozens of local police and non-combatants were killed.

The Taliban said the claims were intended to discredit it. The movement sees ISIS, which is fighting to create a global caliphate, as a hostile force.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
Afghan government officials quoted villagers as saying as many as 600 fighters, who appeared to include both Taliban and ISIS krazed killers, had overrun Mirza Olang village in the northern province of Sar-e Pul on Saturday.

They said that many of the fighters appeared to be foreigners, speaking Turkmen, Uzbek and Punjabi, a language spoken in the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

region of Pakistain.

The reports appeared to offer support to claims that the Taliban have been using imported muscle, but in a region with a patchwork of different ethnicities and national borders close by, establishing a true picture is difficult.

"The Afghan government and its foreign masters are making false claims that we are working with ISIS (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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
) just to discredit us in the local community," one Taliban Überstürmbannführer said.
Posted by:Fred

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