US Military Propping Up ISIS-Daesh in Afghanistan: Report
- US Military Propping Up ISIS-Daesh in Afghanistan: Report
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The United States military has been allowing members of Daesh and their weapons into Afghanistan following the terror group’s recent defeats in Syria and Iraq, a new report suggests, raising serious questions about Washington’s future plans for the country.
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According to the Monday report by the Economic Times, while Afghanistan’s skies remain under full control of American and NATO forces stationed in the country, sources are claiming that weapons are often being transferred to the country by helicopters that bear no identifying insignia.
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The report estimated that around 10,000 members of the Takfiri terrorist group were present in Afghanistan and the number was growing on Washington’s watch. The suspected ties between Daesh and the US military in Afghanistan is nothing new.
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Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s former president, told Al Jazeera in 2017 that the US was colluding with Daesh in Afghanistan and helping it cement its grip on areas in the eastern parts of the country.
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“In my view, under the full [US] presence, surveillance, military, political, intelligence, Daesh has emerged,” he said. “And for two years, the Afghan people came, cried loud about their suffering, of violations. Nothing was done.”
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Karzai further noted that America had specifically used Daesh as an excuse earlier that year to drop the largest non-nuclear bomb ever built in Afghanistan.
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“And the next day, Daesh takes the next district in Afghanistan,” he said. “That proves to us that there is a hand in it and that hand can be no one else but them [the US] in Afghanistan.”
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On April 11, 2017, the US military dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), dubbed the “mother of all bombs”, on alleged Daesh hideouts in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, killing nearly a hundred people, whom the US insists were all militants.
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