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2017-02-28 Afghanistan

‘Up to 20 terror groups’ waging war in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2017-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 I generally dump them all into "Taliban" or "ISIS" groups unless there's a particular identification as to faction

Since terror groups in general seem to freely lend and borrow key personnel except when they are directly fighting one another -- when members seem to desert the loser for the winner with equal ease -- that makes sense to me for our purposes. Just keeping track of who is leading which group in Mali, and where that group's allegiance lies, gives me a headache. Boko Haram is almost as bad, as we discovered when the original Al Qaeda-oriented leader brought in his faction to take over the ISIS-linked group and make it behave properly, while the other original Al Qaeda-oriented leader, having taken the main group to ISIS, now leads an Al Qaeda-linked faction by default, while decrying the other guy as a thief and a traitor... I think. In the meantime both are competing to show they are the jihadiest jihadis of all by sending girls and some boys to blow themselves up in marketplaces while the men rampage through remote villages, pillaging, plundering, and killing.

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