05-10-2021, 08:17 AM
** 09-May-2021 World View: Killing high school girls in Kabul
I just saw a Taliban spokesman being interviewed on al-Jazeera. He
says that the people responsible for the attack are ISIS and people in
the "intelligence circles" of the Afghan government in Kabul.
My assumption is that whoever killed all those teenage girls on
Saturday wants to force the US to remain. Whether that goal could
even be achieved is in doubt, given the Biden administration's hard
announcement of withdrawal under any circumstances. Still, somebody
is responsible for killing those girls. I doubt that it was the
Taliban, since they really do want the Americans and Nato to leave.
So ISIS is the logical choice. But was it a combination of ISIS and
"intelligence circles" of the Afghan government in Kabul? It's
possible, but who knows?
But I just saw another interview, this time with an official of the
Afghan government. He says you'd have to be "very stupid" to believe
that the Taliban was not involved. He blames the Taliban, combined
with Pakistan -- presumably Pakistan's ISI, which would be Pakistan's
"intelligence circles." At least no one has yet blamed the CIA.
John Wrote:> Indeed, the Taliban are condemning the attack and blaming ISIS,
> claiming that ISIS is linked to the Afghan government.
DaKardii Wrote:> An alliance between ISIS and the Afghan government?
> Sounds like a nonsensical claim to me.
John Wrote:> I thought that was a very interesting claim by the Taliban. It's
> nonsensical to be sure, but almost every statement by the Taliban
> is nonsensical. The Afghan government is blaming the Taliban, not
> ISIS, for the attack, so perhaps that has made the paranoid
> Taliban leaders suspicious that ISIS and the government are
> forming a marriage of convenience against the Taliban.
I just saw a Taliban spokesman being interviewed on al-Jazeera. He
says that the people responsible for the attack are ISIS and people in
the "intelligence circles" of the Afghan government in Kabul.
My assumption is that whoever killed all those teenage girls on
Saturday wants to force the US to remain. Whether that goal could
even be achieved is in doubt, given the Biden administration's hard
announcement of withdrawal under any circumstances. Still, somebody
is responsible for killing those girls. I doubt that it was the
Taliban, since they really do want the Americans and Nato to leave.
So ISIS is the logical choice. But was it a combination of ISIS and
"intelligence circles" of the Afghan government in Kabul? It's
possible, but who knows?
But I just saw another interview, this time with an official of the
Afghan government. He says you'd have to be "very stupid" to believe
that the Taliban was not involved. He blames the Taliban, combined
with Pakistan -- presumably Pakistan's ISI, which would be Pakistan's
"intelligence circles." At least no one has yet blamed the CIA.
