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Afghanistan: CIA collaborators join ISIS

Post by Abe Abraham » 02 Nov 2021, 14:15

Afghanistan: CIA collaborators join ISIS

Western media, citing security officials, have revealed that a large number of elements recruited by the CIA in Afghanistan have joined ISIS-Khorasan.

US Experiences in the Service of Daesh

London-based Asharq Al-Awsat quoted a Wall Street Journal article according to which these new recruits bring to ISIS crucial experience in intelligence gathering and warfare techniques, which could improve the organization's ability to compete with the Taliban.

Senior Afghan officer in the ranks of the Islamic State

According to a former Afghan official; Senior Afghan National Army officer who commanded army weapons and ammunition depot in Gardez and joined ISIS was killed a week ago in clash with "Taliban fighters" ".

A former Afghan army official revealed that a large number of elements of the intelligence services and the army of the former Afghan republic joined ISIS after the Taliban searched their homes and demanded that 'they present themselves to the new authorities of the country.

There is no resistance to the Taliban

Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of the Afghan spy agency who left the country, says the security forces had no choice but to join the state Islamic, because it was the only organization able to resist the Taliban.

Unemployed officers

He goes on to say that "hundreds of thousands of intelligence officers, soldiers and former police officers in the Republic of Afghanistan are unemployed and fear for their lives despite the movement's promises of amnesty. taliban ". A small part of them returned; Most of them are in the National Security Directorate, working under (Taliban) supervision like almost all Afghan government employees, but they have not been paid for months.

Financial temptations

Security officials have said that ISIS, in addition to protection from the (Taliban), offers large sums of money to anyone who joins ISIS in Afghanistan.

In recent Senate testimony, Colin Kahl, the US Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, warned that the Islamic State in Afghanistan may be able to attack the West and its allies by 6 to 12 months.


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