Afghanistan: Former US spies, allies defect to ISIS to struggle Taliban

Two months after the US forces left the territory of Afghanistan, numerous their ‘abandoned’ spies and allies have joined fingers with the unconventional Islamist outfit ISIS, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). ISIS is now the one menace to the incumbent Taliban authorities in Afghanistan.
WSJ cited Taliban leaders to assert that the variety of such US allies, defecting to ISIS, is rising every day. Reportedly, the defectors are offering warfare strategies and intelligence gathering experience to the ISIS terrorists and thereby strengthening them to overthrow the Taliban authorities. Following the departure of the US forces, the Talibs raided the homes of Afghans who had labored for the US regime. Fearing threats to their lives, many had joined the regional affiliate of ISIS, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province.
Citing a former Afghan nationwide military official, WSJ reported that a number of males from the Afghan Republic’s Intelligence and Military even have joined the ISIS-Ok in current weeks. He added that a military officer was killed previously week whereas combating the Talibs. Ex-head of the National Directorate of Security, Rahmatullah Nabil, knowledgeable, “In some areas, ISIS has become very attractive. If there were a resistance, they (former Afghan security and defence forces) would have joined the resistance. For the time being, ISIS is the only other armed group.”
ISIS-Ok lures unemployed Afghan officers to the Islamist outfit to struggle Taliban
One of the grim realities going through Afghanistan is that lots of of hundreds of ex-soldiers, former police officers and Afghan Republic Intelligence officers are unemployed. Despite being assured of amnesty, they concern threats to their lives. Reportedly, many of those ex-officials who labored within the National Directorate of Security, have resumed work below the Taliban authorities, But they haven’t been paid their wages for months. In order to lure such unemployed personnel to ISIS-Ok, the Islamic State terrorists are offering them with giant sums of cash and assurance of safety towards the Taliban regime.
The Talibs proceed accountable the United States and Afghanistan’s Intelligence Service for the creation of ISIS-Ok. However, such claims have already been dismissed by each the US authorities and the previous Kabul authorities. Although each Islamic State-Khorasan Province and Taliban are radical Islamist outfits, the previous observe Salafi Islam whereas the latter adhere to the Hanafi faculty of Sunni Islam. ISIS-Ok, which had develop into weak following a Taliban offensive in 2015, re-emerged after the withdrawal of US forces and the autumn of Kabul to the Taliban.
Taliban unwilling to just accept ISIS as a serious menace
The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Intelligence has begun offering info to the Talibs in regards to the Islamic State. However, the Taliban is reluctant to think about the ISIS-Ok as a serious menace. While talking in regards to the matter, senior Taliban chief Mawlawi Zubair remarked, “We are not faced with a threat nor are we worried about them. There is no need, not even a tiny need, for us to seek assistance from anyone against ISIS.” He additional added, “In the current situation, we are not dealing with a few difficulties, we are facing many. If we get rid of all our economic and administrative problems, ISIS will disappear in 15 days in all of Afghanistan.”
US forces left behind biometric knowledge of Afghan allies
After Kabul fell by the hands of the Taliban, it got here to gentle that the United States had left its allies in Afghanistan susceptible to assault by the unconventional Islamist outfit. As per an unique report by Politico, the Biden administration had handed out an inventory of American residents, Afghan allies, and inexperienced card holders to the Taliban in order to permit their evacuation from the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul. Despite being nicely conscious that the Taliban has a historical past of killing US allies, the choice to supply particular names to the Islamist outfit by the Biden administration had put their life in jeopardy.
Not simply the lists, the Taliban reportedly even have biometric knowledge of all Afghans who had labored with US and NATO forces. After the seize of Afghanistan, numerous biometric gadgets, together with weapons, automobiles, and ammunition left behind by American and fleeing Afghan forces have been captured by the Taliban. With the US-built navy gadgets, the Taliban now probably have the entry to the biometric database of Afghans. Politico had reported how the Taliban was going door-to-door in the hunt for Afghan interpreters and US allies, after the Biden administration ‘outsourced’ the safety to the Taliban.