Global Jihad: Taliban jihadis joining Islamic State, merging with Al Qaeda

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Because (*she said for the gazilioneth time) it’s all the same, all of a piece – fighting jihad in cause of Islam.

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines – fighting for U.S.A.

Allah’s army:  fighting for Islam: Boko Haram, Hamas, Al Qaeda, al Shabbab, Hezb’Allah, ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood, MILF – it’s all of a piece. All of these Muslim groups, or any of these other designated Islamic terrorist organizations: Abdullah Azzam Shaheed, Brigade, Abu Nidal Organization, Abu Sayyaf, al-Aqsa Foundation, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Al-Badr, al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, Al Ghurabaa, al-Haramain Foundation, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Takfir wal-Hijra, Al-Umar-Mujahideen, Ansar al-Islam, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, Ansar Dine, Ansaru, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Army of Islam, Osbat al-Ansar, Caucasus Emirate, Deendar Anjuman, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Liberation Organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, El Kaide Terör Örgütü Türkiye Yapılanması, Great Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Haqqani network, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Harkat-al-Jihad al-Islami in Bangladesh, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harakat-Ul-Mujahideen/Alami, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, Hezbollah Military Wing, Hezbollah External Security Organisation, Hilafet Devleti, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hizbul Mujahideen, Hofstad Network, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Indian Mujahideen, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, Islamic Jihad – Jamaat Mujahideen, Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jamaat Ul-Furquan Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai, Jamiat ul-Ansar, Jamiat-e Islami, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, Jund al-Sham, Jundallah, Kata’ib Hezbollah, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, Khuddam ul-Islam, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine Liberation Front, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, People’s Congress of Ichkeria and Dagestan, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage, Stichting Al Aqsa, Students Islamic Movement of India, Supreme Military Majlis ul-Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of Caucasus, Taliban, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, United Liberation Front of Assam, World Uygur Youth Congress fight the same cause and use the same playbook, the Quran.

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Afghanistan security adviser says hard-line Taliban members defecting to ISIS, merging with Al Qaeda

By: Hollie McKay, FOX News, October 3, 2019:

More than 18 years after U.S. forces entered Afghanistan and usurped the Taliban government from power, the country remains a patchwork of progress, pain, and bloodletting.

While the territorial dominance and perpetual attacks orchestrated by the Taliban remains at the forefront of the fragile nation’s woes, the presence of other insurgent groups and blatant threats to U.S. interests also lurk in the periphery.

“Many Taliban commanders, hardliners that did not want to join the peace process. We had intelligence that showed they are going to join ISIS. That threat may increase over a period of time,” Afghan National Security Adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, told Fox News on Tuesday. “For the time being, ISIS is not a strategic threat to us. We have been able to get rid of them in places they have taken hold. But if the peace process goes wrong and doesn’t really integrate all of the Taliban, the hardliners may join ISIS, which is when it will become a strategic threat to us and our international partners.”

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Last month, President Trump abruptly canceled the year-long Doha talks after the death of an American soldier in a Taliban-executed bombing, throwing the future of the talks into disarray. Mohib said such a move was the right one and that the only way forward for the insurgent outfit was to sit down with the Kabul government – which they have bluntly refused to do – underscoring that all the progress made by the U.S delegation was not lost.

“Now we are in a very good place to begin real peace negotiations. It was not all a waste. I think there are parts we can salvage,” he said, adding that they are analyzing what prevailed and what can be redeemed for future use.

Hamdullah Mohib, the National Security Adviser of Afghanistan (NSA) who previously served as the Ambassador to the United States.
Hamdullah Mohib, the National Security Adviser of Afghanistan (NSA) who previously served as the Ambassador to the United States. (Courtesy Afghan Unity Government)

But also a cause for concern is the notion not only of Taliban members aligning with ISIS, but they are also merging with Al Qaeda more than eight years since the death of its leader in a Navy SEAL raid.

President Trump also last month confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son of Usama bin Laden and an emerging Al Qaeda leader, had been killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation. While the time and place of his death have not been confirmed, Mohib indicated it was “probably Pakistan” and marks an important feat in the fight against terrorism.

“Leadership matters in all of this. Symbolic leadership matters,” he stressed. “But there is a blurred line between Al Qaeda and the Taliban now. They have been inter-marrying, they work together, their ideologies have merged. There is very little difference between the Taliban and Al Qaeda today.”

One of the primary negotiation points between the U.S and the Taliban in the now-shuttered U.S-led peace process was that the Taliban was not to provide safe harbor to such groups that pose international security threats and threats to the U.S. homeland.

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Yet in the face of a volatile security situation, incessant Taliban threats and widespread concerns of corruption and voter fraud, Afghanistan held its presidential elections on Saturday. Both front-runners – incumbent President Ashraf Ghani and his opponent, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah – were quick to claim victory. But the tabulated outcome will not be known for weeks.

“There cannot be fraud. There are multiple layers of verification. Everyone brings ID cars, and they are added to a list specific to a polling center. When you arrive, they check your sticker that it correlates with the name. Then there are fingerprints, and they take your picture and a picture of your ID card so you can’t be a ghost voter,” Mohib explained. “(All ballots) must arrive in Kabul before the electoral commission can even start counting.”

A preliminary result is expected around October 19, with a final tally announced on November 7. The clear winner – of 13 candidates – must take more than 50 percent of the vote. Otherwise, the election will move to a runoff.

It marked the fourth time the country has gone to the polls to elect a president since the post-9/11 occupation, and according to Mohib, the most significant.

“In the past, the international community were the ones behind the elections. They paid for it, they held it, they encouraged Afghans to come out and vote and held the security. Now, it is the Afghan people who wanted the elections,” he said. “It is the Afghan people who paid for the elections, secured the elections. The big shift is that Afghans believe in democracy, and it is no longer a process driven by our partners. It is an Afghan process for Afghans, by Afghans.”

An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Afghans headed to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president amid high security and threats of violence from Taliban militants, who warned citizens to stay away from polling stations or risk being hurt. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Afghans headed to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president amid high security and threats of violence from Taliban militants, who warned citizens to stay away from polling stations or risk being hurt. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

But the biggest victory of all was the apparent thwarting of hundreds of large-scale attacks.

“The Taliban said they would blow up polling stations and there will be civilian casualties. Fourteen suicide attacks were prevented on the night before the elections alone,” Mohib noted. “On the day, (they) tried to launch 273 attacks, some did result in casualties in the case of security forces, but no civilians were harmed. I’m very proud of our security forces of being able to manage such a high-level of threats.”

“We wanted to make sure the elections happened, and security was good, we focused on that and delivered on that,” Mohib asserted.

Precise turnout numbers are unclear following reports that the Taliban sabotaged telecommunication towers in remote hamlets on Saturday in an attempt to hinder the process. However, early estimates pin turnout to just 2.5 million out of an eligible 9 million – a historic low in a country of some 35 million.

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And what comes next in Afghanistan – a country that for decades has endured endless invasions, conflicts, rises and falls – is a game of guesses, hopes, and prayers.

“We have re-created our country out of the rubble in the last 20 years. There was literally nothing there. The man-made infrastructure was destroyed. We had no telephones left; there was no electricity, no hospitals, no schools. It became a ghost town,” he added. “Now Kabul looks like any other capital. People are connected, culturally sophisticated, tech-savvy. That is the biggest progress in the world, and we have the U.S. to thank for that.”

Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, and Latin America investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world. Follow her on Twitter.
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Bill
Bill
4 years ago

That’s quite a list of bad guys. It’s obvious they are not loose-knit wackos. On the contrary, they are organized.

Yet, those that speak out against them are ostracized here in the West. Islamophobic. I’d rather be thought of as Islamophobic than a naive, leftist, fool………..Those last three words just made me think of somebody like Jeremy Corbyn.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Iran Quds and the Pakistan ISI enables them.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

While the territorial dominance and perpetual attacks orchestrated by the Taliban remains at the forefront of the fragile nation’s woes, the presence of other insurgent groups and blatant threats to U.S. interests also lurk in the periphery.

What US interests?
What national interest do we have with Afghanistan or Iran?

Why is an Obama holdover from 2015, Hamdullah Mohib, still the National Security Adviser for Afghanistan?
He needs to be replaced. I would not trust him. Obama never hires good people….

And what comes next in Afghanistan – a country that for decades has endured endless invasions, conflicts, rises and falls – is a game of guesses, hopes, and prayers.

That’s how it is with Muslim countries in conflict. It never ends. For whatever reason, local Muslims want OTHER countries to FIGHT and PAY for their country’s defense, and REBUILD their country. Never mind they have been trained and armed for YEARS by us. If they don’t want to step up and defend their country, why should we? Flat out, I don’t think they are worth fighting for. They have to step up. The most we should do is arm them. How much more time, money, lives and maimed people are we willing to run through? As for other terrorist groups uniting, that should be no surprise. It just never ends with these people. We have no national interest in Iran or Afghanistan. None! If you think the EU is going to team up with us, you are mistaken. They have sided with Islam so it will all be on us

The other option is to totally bomb the crap out of the country and stopping fretting over women and children. After that expect who ever is left to team up with Muslim terrorists from other Muslim countries, to regroup again in the same or a different country. Round and round it goes with the same outcome – money, lives, casualties, maimed people, more military suicides, homeless vets psychologically affected by this crap and more debt That money is desperately needed in OUR country for our border, infrastructure, ICE etc…We have our own invasion going on and Muslim terrorist attacks being covered up. We have way too many problems in out own country right now……

SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

You probably need to get on Trump’s FB or Twitter page and relay this info to him. HE DOES READ THEM BOTH.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I’ll bet Hamdullah Mohib’s only concern is how this will affect w/Afghanistain’s leading export to the dying atheist West (aside from islamic terrorism that is): heroin and opium.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

China is making sure we get lots of fentanyl.
I guess they learned something from the opium wars.
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger then heroin and highly addictive. It’s notorious for over doses.
It’s an easier way to fight your enemy.
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Cynthia
Cynthia
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Cynthia

Farid your djinn called, you bacha bazi boy has herpes.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

What’s strange about this is that I believe drug dealers are executed in the PRC.

patd
patd
4 years ago

they are…I saw a couple of photos where they caught a couple women dealer and split their heads ope with rounds and buried them in a ditch. We need that quick sentencing for the criminal illegals in this country.

patd
patd
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I like it…hopefully the libturds will abuse and thin the herd!!!!!!

SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO
4 years ago

Get them all in one place, then KABOOM. Problem of evil terrorists, GONE. Or, kaboom individually. Just get rid of these demonic people.

patd
patd
4 years ago

More proof that all of them need to be sent to their 72 virgin goats or back to their caves!!!!

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