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Afghanistan

Taliban react to photos of Afghan forces published by KIB’s Syrian wing

2020-07-10

[KhaamaPress] The Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group reacted to photos which the Syrian Wing of Katibat Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), an Uzbek Jihadist group loyal to Taliban, recently published.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban group, blamed the anti-peace circles for propagating by publishing such photos.

"These images have been stolen from our archive & falsified by anti-peace circles for propaganda!!!" he said in a Twitter post.

Yesterday, FDD’s Long War Journal reported on new images released by the Afghanistan branch of Katibat Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), an Uzbek jihadist group loyal to the Taliban that fights under its banner, according to Long War Journal.

According to the Tabloid, the photos in question were originally posted on Telegram by the overall emir of KIB’s Syrian wing, Abu Yusuf al-Muhajir. KIB’s channels are routinely banned on the platform. But Muhajir’s channel is relatively stable and he has taken on the task of publishing the group’s media from both Syria and Afghanistan.

Tolo News has more:

Uzbek Militant Group Claims it Conducted Operation with Taliban

An Uzbek Death Eater group, Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), with the release of two pictures has claimed that in a joint operation with the Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
they captured several members of a public uprising force somewhere in Afghanistan.

Although the group has not said anything about the date and the location of the joint operation, the Long War Journal website has said that the KIB affiliates are operating in Afghanistan’s Jawzjan and Faryab provinces.

Good to know.

"Earlier today, the Uzbek jihadist group, Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), released two photos from its Afghanistan branch. The photos detail the capture of several pro-government Afghan Lions of Islam after a claimed joint attack with Taliban soldiers," the website wrote on Wednesday.

"Since 2016, KIB has sporadically released propaganda from its Afghanistan wing. That year, the group released two videos from the northern part of the country depicting training camps for both general indoctrination and lessons on the manufacturing of IED’s, along with combat footage," the website said.

In 2018, the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Security Council also confirmed the presence of the group in Afghanistan. But the Taliban has always denied any link with the group.

“Wudn’t us.”

"Khatiba Imam al-Bukhari (KIB) was established in 2011 in the Afghanistan/Pakistain border area by fighters who had split from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (QDe.010).

Splitters!

Since March 2015, the group has been actively collaborating with Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
h, listed as al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant and its successor gangs," the UNSC said in a statement in 2018.

"KIB leaders view Afghanistan as a new staging ground to project attacks against neighboring Central Asia countries. Since 2016, KIB fighters have been redeployed from the Syrian Arab Republic to the north of Afghanistan with a view to setting up training camps and organizing special terrorist training for new recruits," according to the UN.

"The ongoing festivities which are going on today in Qaisar, Qaramqol, Garezwan and Shereen Tagab--the same people (KIB) are leading these wars," said Naqibullah Fayeq, the governor of Faryab province.

According to the UN, KIB commands up to 500 foreign terrorist fighters, most of them are nationals of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation, including Russian nationals originating from the North Caucasus region. KIB conducted recruitment mainly among nationals of Uzbekistan, including through social networks.

"The foreigners who operate in Badakhshan alongside the Taliban--they are the backbone of the Taliban’s war and they have come here from China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan," said Abdullah Naji Nazari, a member of Badakhshan's provincial council.

"There are thirteen active terrorist groups among them Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
and Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
," said Gul Mohammad Bedar, the deputy governor of Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
This comes few days after local officials in the eastern province of Kunar also said that foreign Death Eaters, among them members of Pakistain-based Lashkar-e-Taiba Death Eaters, are operating in the province.

Based on the US-Taliban peace agreement which was signed in Doha, the Taliban committed to cut ties with all foreign Death Eater groups including Al Qaeda.

And we are all so shocked that they lied.

Related: The Long War Journal report quoted above. Lots of links at the link to explore. I discovered that Jawzjan and Faryab provinces have large ethnic Uzbek populations.

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