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Above is an article that very few people picked up on. Yet is so very important because the author interviews ground level sources.
I have to concede that the Kabul government has learned a thing or two about malfeasance and malingering from its wayward brother government across the Durand. I say this because it seems to be the harbinger of the supposed ISISization of Afghanistan.
In my view and estimation, the trumpeting of an ISIS metastasis into Afghanistan was done to force Obama's hand into slowing down the troop withdrawal, or at least in giving him cover. The actual origin of the plan may emanate from the Military Industrial Complex in the West benefiting from the war that is against a drawdown.
There are other quotes from locals that allege the opposite. The point is that there is no clear cut evidence regarding this claim and the individual that saw him on a "daily basis" denied the claim. If nothing else, a ground level investigation of this matter is required before utilizing it as a propaganda point to extent the theater of war.
Above is an article that very few people picked up on. Yet is so very important because the author interviews ground level sources.
I have to concede that the Kabul government has learned a thing or two about malfeasance and malingering from its wayward brother government across the Durand. I say this because it seems to be the harbinger of the supposed ISISization of Afghanistan.
In my view and estimation, the trumpeting of an ISIS metastasis into Afghanistan was done to force Obama's hand into slowing down the troop withdrawal, or at least in giving him cover. The actual origin of the plan may emanate from the Military Industrial Complex in the West benefiting from the war that is against a drawdown.
Local Taliban figures and their neighbors dismiss claims that Mullah Khadim has established a significant new Islamic State cell in Helmand Province.
“He has nothing to do with the Islamic State,” Hajji Durani, a farmer with relatives in the Taliban, said. He lives near Mullah Khadim’s village in Kajaki and says he sees the former Talib daily, usually accompanied by a dozen or so longtime supporters.
The local Taliban commander, Mullah Mohammad Shah, also dismissed claims that the Islamic State was active in Kajaki, or elsewhere in Helmand.
“We have not seen any Islamic State militants on the move in Kajaki,” he said by telephone. “We know Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim. He was a member of the Taliban, but now he is sitting at home.”
“He has nothing to do with the Islamic State,” Hajji Durani, a farmer with relatives in the Taliban, said. He lives near Mullah Khadim’s village in Kajaki and says he sees the former Talib daily, usually accompanied by a dozen or so longtime supporters.
The local Taliban commander, Mullah Mohammad Shah, also dismissed claims that the Islamic State was active in Kajaki, or elsewhere in Helmand.
“We have not seen any Islamic State militants on the move in Kajaki,” he said by telephone. “We know Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim. He was a member of the Taliban, but now he is sitting at home.”
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