13+ years of NATO occupation hasn’t put a dent in Taliban unity, but they could be facing a new foreign challenge, as the success of ISIS has some of their top commanders green with envy.
It’s not hard to see why. ISIS went from one-of-many rebel groups in Syria to a de facto nation awash in cash and with total control over a number of major cities across Iraq and Syria. By contrast, the Taliban hasn’t achieved much.
The view of ISIS as having the winning formula has some Taliban commanders looking to defect and set up their own ISIS cells, bringing the caliphate’s franchise to Afghanistan. They’ve been reported off and on as active in Helmand, fighting both Afghan forces and the Taliban themselves.
How big this new faction is remains unclear, as is how close they actually are to the ISIS leadership in Syria. Pakistan reported capturing a local ISIS commander today, however, suggesting the problem is getting bigger.
As if history began yesterday, the author suggests the Taliban have not achieved much in comparison to ISIS. BS.
The Taliban ran two superpowers out of Afghanistan. Perhaps ISIS will be more successful than that. But I doubt it.
Birds of a feather — Flock together
If the Islamic State is not in full submission to the CIA, then by the will of Empire USA it could quickly be so.
For both nations have a mad passion for global supremacy, both love to slaughter human flesh for any reason and both function by a fake morality that enables every man to be enriched upon the misery of anyone they can defeat in combat, be it in war or capitalism.
ISIS means "Islamic State In Iraq and Syria". The notion that ISIS is everywhere is total propaganda.Every dictator and wanna be dictator with an agenda to advance is using ISIS real and imaginary to to gain western support to gain power or stay in power no matter what.
For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi named Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi.
As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, an organization publicly backed by Al Qaeda, Baghdadi issued a steady stream of incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by Iraqi officials that he had been killed in May, Baghdadi appeared to have persevered unscathed.
On Wednesday, a senior American military spokesman provided a new explanation for Baghdadi's ability to escape attack: He never existed.
Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, the chief American military spokesman, said the elusive Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose audio-taped declarations were provided by an elderly actor named Abu Adullah al-Naima.
The ruse, Bergner said, was devised by Abu Ayub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who was trying to mask the dominant role that foreigners play in that insurgent organization.
The ploy was to invent Baghdadi, a figure whose very name establishes his Iraqi pedigree, install him as the head of a front organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and then arrange for Masri to swear allegiance to him. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, sought to reinforce the deception by referring to Baghdadi in his video and Internet statements. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/world/africa/18…