Indian expert wants Afghanistan "boiling"; 100 dead in terror attack. "ISIS Indian variant"?

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Indian expert wants Afghanistan "boiling"; 100 dead in terror attack. "ISIS Indian variant"?

So called "ISIS Indian variant" or "ISIS-K variant" starting to wreak havoc in Afghanistan to create "anarchy" and keep Afghanistan "boiling" as was being recommended in below "think tank" talk? Odd timing coincidence of this video being cited in social media. On Oct 3 2021, some Indian military, political pundits & leaders allegedly made these statements in a live stream. Vid doesn't show CC option but accents not terribly hard to understand:

Dr Subramanian Swamy & Maj. Gaurav Arya (Retd.) on Afghan Crisis: Impact : India's National Security
Streamed live on Oct 3, 2021

"the best part is strengthen Tajikistan, fund Tajikistan, and create an environment of anarchy inside Afghanistan... because it cannot be stabilized, not by America, not by China. Keep it boiling, keep it boiling so nobody can settle down including China and keep your influence there by giving money to selected people... keep Afghanistan unsettled, give large amounts of money.."

"So many people educated in India were there in Afghanistan.... even Karzai was educated (in India).. We will not be starting from scratch, less than 8 minutes to fly into Kabul and bomb it.. and if we get F-35s from Americans, I think we can do it very easily"

youtube.com/watch?v=VapKYuRPxUI&t=4357s


What US militray might couldn't do in 20 years, these experts claim they can do it easily. One of the experts claims that he had trained Afghan officers. Going by comments there, these are supposedly "well reputed" strategic experts; apparently such experts were tapped using US taxpayers money to train the very Afghan forces that turmed out to be completely incompetent and fled without a fight in the end.


This terrorist attack that killed 100 took place near border of Tajikistan (buffer state between Russia and Afghansitan), and soon after Russia had called a conference on Afghanistan on Oct 20th.


Taliban official: At least 100 dead, wounded in Afghan blast

ISIS Bomber Kills Dozens at Shiite Mosque in Northern Afghanistan

The Islamic State Khorasan claimed responsibility for the attack in Kunduz, continuing its campaign of predation against the Hazara Shiite minority into a new era of Taliban rule.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Wali Arian
Oct. 8, 2021

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Islamic State suicide bomber devastated a Shiite mosque in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Friday, killing dozens of worshipers in a deadly continuation of the terrorist group’s campaign against the Hazara minority.

The massacre, while the mosque was crowded for Friday Prayer, was the group’s second attack against a mosque in just a few days. And it was the realization of Afghan Hazaras’ fears that the Islamic State’s predation would go unchecked under the rule of the Taliban, which itself preyed on the Hazara in the past.

ISIS-K is a Sunni extremist group that has long targeted Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan, focusing heavily on the Hazara ethnic minority, which is predominantly Shiite. Most of Afghanistan is Sunni, and ethnic Pashtuns — who make up most of the Taliban’s ranks — are a plurality in the country.
ISIS-K also staged an attack several days ago outside a mosque in Kabul, the capital, which killed several people.

nytimes.com/2021/10/08/world/asia/afghanistan-mosque-attack.html




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https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/08...islamic-state/

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Kabul bomber was jailed in India 5 yrs ago: ISIS-K
New Delhi, September 18, 2021
Adding to worries of intelligence agencies grappling with the fallout of the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) has claimed that the Kabul airport suicide bomber was arrested in Delhi five years ago and was deported to Afghanistan after a spell in jail.
The ISIS-K had taken the responsibility for the suicide bomb attack outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26 this year. The attack along with firing by troops had killed over 180 people, including 13 US Marines.

21 Indians join group

• The ISIS-K has announced setting up of its ‘India chapter’ to operate in Kashmir
• A group of 21 Indians has joined ISIS-K in Nangarhar province
• One of them had led an attack on a Kabul gurdwara, massacring 25 persons

An ISIS-K magazine has claimed that the suicide bomber, Abdur Rahman al-Logri, was arrested in India five years ago when he had travelled to Delhi to carry out an attack.


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More reliable US news outlets have not yet confirmed who could be behind ISIS-K variant.
But in retrospect, there should have been greater scrutiny and push back against such Indian media narratives in 2019:

India Times ET Bureau's irresponsible reporting on US military 'promoting ISIS in Afghanistan'

There are allegations that weapons are often transferred to the territory of Afghanistan by helicopters without identifying insignia.
ET Bureau
Apr 22, 2019

The US military is allegedly allowing members of the ISIS, which have suffered serious defeats in Syria and neighboring Iraq, to infiltrate Afghanistan even as US is engaged with peace talks with Taliban for sake of stability in the landlocked country.
There are allegations that weapons are often transferred to the territory of Afghanistan by helicopters without identifying insignia. With the US and NATO fully controlling the skies over Afghanistan, there is every reason to believe they had a hand in that, or at least, did not hamper these flights, sources alleged.

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Central asians are not Indian experts .

 

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Terrorists strike again in Afghanistan:

Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills Dozens as Shiites Are Targeted Again
ISIS-K claims responsibility

It was the second week in a row that attackers had struck a Shiite place of worship during Friday Prayer.

Dozens Killed In Blast at Afghan Mosque

Oct. 15, 2021
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan —
The attack, which witnesses said involved multiple explosions, took place in Kandahar city — considered the heart of the re-established Taliban government. The Islamic State Khorasan, also known as ISIS-K, claimed responsibility hours later, saying the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers. The terrorist organization had said it was behind a similar strike last week on a Shiite mosque in Kunduz Province, in the north, that left more than 40 people dead.
Hafiz Saidullah, a Taliban official in charge of the culture and information department in Kandahar, said that the latest attack killed 47 people and injured at least 68.
Witnesses described a bloody scene at the mosque, after multiple blasts erupted inside the building.

“We have no idea if it was a suicide bomber or an I.E.D. — but it was powerful; human flesh and blood were seen all around the mosque,” said a worshiper, Mohammad Ali, referring to an improvised explosive device.
Mr. Ali said the Taliban arrived shortly after the blast and cordoned off the area. Outside Mirwais Regional Hospital, where victims were taken, people were lining up to donate blood.
Such an attack in a Taliban stronghold poses the risk of undermining the Taliban government’s commitment to provide security to Afghan citizens after the Western-backed government collapsed in August.

Injured victims at a hospital in Kandahar on Friday.Credit...EPA, via Shutterstock

nytimes.com/2021/10/15/world/asia/afghanistan-mosque-blast.html

 

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Those who forget history are bound to forget other things too.

Earlier variant of this group (that was allegedly supported by pro Syria intervention deep neocon factions) that is now attacking shiite minority in Afghanistan reportedly used to attack Christian minority and children in Syria:

Iraq: ISIS Terrorists Still Killing Christians, Beheading Children

 

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Variant responsible for this terrorism was not named in early reporting thus far:

At least 15 killed in Kabul hospital blasts

By Ehsan Popalzai, Mahsoud Popalzai, Mia Alberti and Reuters
Tue November 2, 2021

Smoke rises from the site of blasts at a hospital in Kabul on Tuesday.

(CNN)At least 15 people were killed and 30 wounded in blasts at Afghanistan's biggest military hospital on Tuesday, a Taliban official told CNN.
Gunfire followed the explosions at the entrance of Kabul's Daoud Khan Military hospital, a 400-bed teaching facility near the capital's former diplomatic quarter. Taliban officials said special forces have arrived at the scene.
A doctor treating incoming patients at the nearby Wazir Akbar Khan civilian hospital said at least 15 wounded people had been admitted to his facility's emergency ward, several in critical condition. In addition, the Italian humanitarian NGO "Emergency" tweeted that nine injured were brought to its hospital in Kabul.
Three armed men were seen inside the compound of the hospital near the entrance of the building after two blasts rocked the area, according to footage posted on Facebook and obtained by CNN.

The video was filmed from inside the hospital by a man who wrote on Facebook he was "trapped" inside of a room and in hiding. In the video, a fourth man appears laying on the floor.
Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke over the area of the blasts and witnesses said at least two helicopters were flying over the area, Reuters reported.

A health worker at the hospital, who managed to escape, told Reuters he heard a large explosion followed by a couple of minutes of gunfire. About ten minutes later, there was a second, larger explosion, he said. He said it was unclear whether the blasts and the gunfire were inside the sprawling hospital complex.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses saying a number of fighters from the Afghan affiliate of ISIS entered the hospital and clashed with security forces, Reuters reported.

In 2017, ISIS-K, as the affiliate is known, mounted a complex attack on the hospital, killing more than 30 people. The group has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since the Taliban's seizure of Kabul.

cnn.com/2021/11/02/asia/afghanistan-kabul-blast-intl/index.html

 

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Afghanistan: Deadly explosion hits mainly Shia suburb of Kabul

Explosion goes off in a minivan in Dasht-e Barchi area in the west of Afghan capital, officials say.

Smoke rise on the sky following a bomb explosion in Kabul [AP]

Published On 13 Nov 2021

At least one person has been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that hit a vehicle in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials said.
The incident on Saturday took place in Dasht-e Barchi, a Kabul suburb dominated by members of the mostly Shia Hazara community, who for years have been targeted by ISIL-affiliated fighters.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/13/afghanistan-deadly-explosion-hits-mainly-shia-suburb-of-kabul




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