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ISIS in alliance with AQ? Taliban?

[ by Charles Cameron — waiting for the wave function to collapse ]
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Hm.

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Sources:

  • Newsweek, Is an ISIS / al-Qaeda merger in the cards?
  • NYT, Joint Taliban-ISIS Attack Kills Dozens, Afghan Officials Say

    • This entry was posted on Monday, August 7th, 2017 at 12:04 am and is filed under al qaida, Charles Cameron, Doublequotes, IS, ISIS, Taliban, uncertainty. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    2 Responses to “ISIS in alliance with AQ? Taliban?”

    1. Charles Cameron Says:
      August 11th, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      Regarding the question mark with which my post title closes —

      The first notable factor was the alleged combination of ISIS and Taliban fighters in the assault. Evidence about the nature of the ‘collaboration,’ if any, remains unclear. Zabihullah Amani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the insurgents were a mixed group of Taliban and ISIS insurgents, under the command of Sher Mohammad Ghazanfar, a local Taliban commander who allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS ‘Caliph’ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Taliban itself was swift to deny any involvement, with one commander saying “the Afghan government and its foreign masters are making false claims that we are working with Daesh [ISIS] just to discredit us in the local community.”

      Strangely, I can’t find where I grabbed that quote, either in my file history for today, or by searching on Google and Bing. It is, however, a cut-and-paste from somewhere!

    2. Charles Cameron Says:
      August 11th, 2017 at 5:21 pm

      Got it!
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      ‘Joint’ ISIS, Taliban Attack Shows Fluidity of Afghan Jihadism

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