[TOLO] "Dude. We told you! They're all gone. Like to Pakistain or someplace. K?"
General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of the US Central Command, talking to reporters on Friday raised concerns regarding Daesh’s presence and activity in Afghanistan.
He said Daesh has a few thousand fighters in Afghanistan, and they have carried out some high-profile attacks in the past several months since the collapse of the former government.
"So we assess probably a couple thousand, more or less, ISIS fighters in Afghanistan. Of course, when the Taliban opened Pul-e-Charkhi and Parwan prisons and infused new talent and new energy into ISIS -- and so they're now reaping the result of that very shortsighted decision," he said.
McKenzie said if the pressures on Daesh are gone, the group will regenerate in the country. "But absent effective pressure, it's going to be -- we would expect that ISIS will continue to regenerate in the ungoverned spaces, principally in eastern Afghanistan but not exclusively there, and we're going to see them on down the road," he added.
The Islamic Emirate, rejecting McKenzie's remarks, said Daesh hideouts have been discovered and destroyed in the country. Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said such remarks are baseless.
"These claims are baseless and there is no evidence. Daesh’s activities in Afghanistan have been shut down and no one will be allowed to create insecurity," Karimi said.
This is not the first time that McKenzie has made such remarks. On Wednesday he said that the Islamic Emirate is committed to fighting Daesh but has found it difficult.
"Daesh exists in Afghanistan and with its attacks on Shia mosques and schools it wants to attack the government," said Tariq Farhadi, a political analyst.
"The Americans again have plans to have an intelligence presence in Afghanistan and so they make such excuses, while Daesh does not exist," said General Samar, a former military officer.
Previously the UN said in a report that Daesh’s fighters have increased from 2,000 to 4,000 since the opening of prisons in the country. The Islamic Emirate, however, has repeatedly rejected such figures and reports about Daesh.
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Adel Abdel Bary, 61, was allegedly the spin doctor of Osama Bin Laden in the 90s ....and emir of the London cell of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad, subsequently folded into Al Qaeda when Dr. al Zawahiri became Osama bin Laden’s Number 2
He was jailed for 25 years for his role in Al Qaeda bombings of two US embassies
Attacks in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 killed 224 people and injured thousands
The former lawyer was released in 2020 and has returned to his London home Officials were concerned that his gross obesity would be a risk factor for Covid, so they made him Britain’s problem
He was only questioned by officials for one hour before returning to the UK
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Not sure how you can maintain a high level of obesity during a couple of decades in jail. Maybe he only left his cell at meal time.
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^ He kept consuming his cellmates du jour
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concernedhis gross obesity would be a risk factor for Covid
Oh so THAT'S why they want to create food scarcity around the world. It's the next stage in their Covid strategy
[IsraelTimes] A dual British-US national released from prison last week as part of a deal between Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and the United Kingdom has been returned to custody and today was transferred to a hotel, the British government says.
Iranian prison officials let the long-held 66-year-old environmentalist, Morad Tahbaz, leave jail on a furlough last Wednesday, the same day as two high-profile British citizens who were tossed into the calaboose in Iran for more than five years were freed and flown home to Britannia.
The UK said it secured Tahbaz’s furlough, along with the release and return of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and retired civil engineer Anoosheh Ashoori, after settling a long-standing debt to Iran that had fueled tensions between the countries for decades.
But barely two days after Tahbaz left jail and headed to his family’s home in Tehran, Iranian security forces forced him to return to Evin Prison, his Tehran-based lawyer says.
"Unfortunately, we have no idea if or when he is going to be released," Hojjat Kermani tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "He is back in Evin for the time being."
Iranian officials and state-run media are not acknowledging Tahbaz’s return to prison. Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... also is not immediately responding to a request for comment, nor are officials in Iran’s judiciary office.
The State Department said that it is aware of reports that Tahbaz has been returned to prison, allegedly to be fitted with an ankle tag.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Tahbaz’s lawyer says he "was not informed about any ankle tag," and two days later remains behind bars without any update.
"Iran made a commitment to the UK to furlough Morad Tahbaz," the State Department says. "We are not a party to this arrangement, but would join the UK in considering anything short of Morad’s immediate furlough a violation of Iran’s commitment."
The statement adds: "We are urgently consulting with the UK on appropriate responses."
Iranian security forces arrested Tahbaz in January 2018, as part of wide crackdown targeting environmental activists in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
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