In the wake of a video showing regional ISIS supporters beheading a Pakistani soldier, Afghan officials confirmed that ISIS is not only active in Afghanistan, but increasingly so in the southern Helmand Province.
Gen. Mahmoud Khan admitted that ISIS fighters are openly recruiting in Helmand, and that a religious leader named Mullah Abdul Rauf has been trying to bring tribal leaders on board.
Mullah Rauf was a commander for the Taliban years ago, but now seems to be on the ISIS bandwagon. This could be problematic not just for the Afghan government, but for the Taliban as well.
Reports are that in southern Helmand, where the Taliban has taken much territory recently, ISIS is clashing with them, and they could easily become a third force in the ongoing Afghan War, just as they have in the Syrian Civil War.
Could it just be — Finally the laboring-class has some say?
For the upper half of society has all the say, what with the warlords, drug-lords and landlords being the rich class that has always ruled government. What with the Taliban being the intelligent middle-class and fighting a civil war to see who gets to slave drive the laboring-class lower half of society.
Comes now ISIS with a form of government only a laboring man could love. Mainly, women not allowed to divorce a laboring man and in all the ways of western corruption turn the laboring-class into a matriarch ruled police state, all to get labor done for starvation cheep wages.
I thought Oboomer (said) ISIS had been (degraded). Similar to W's claim that he (degraded)
the Taliban.
"Stability is an unworthy [neocon] mission, and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not whether, but how to destabilize." Ledeen