ISIS to take capital of Afghanistan ‘within days’ of US departure

ByPAMELA GELLER on September 20, 2015

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No worries, Obama says they’re “junior varsity,” right?

Obama has reversed every very battle, every war we fought and won in the wake of 9/11.

The world is descending into jihad chaos while the Obama invites the clock-hoaxer to the White House. Special rights for a special class.

ISIS will take Kabul ‘within days’ of U.S. departure, By Michael Maloof, September 20, 2015
U.S. intel official in Afghanistan warns it will ‘all implode from there’
WASHINGTON – With world attention removed from the rise of ISIS in Afghanistan, there is mounting concern that its capital, Kabul, will fall after U.S. troops leave at the end of 2016, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
“Kabul will fall within days of us leaving,” declared a U.S. intelligence official in Afghanistan who requested anonymity told G2 Bulletin.
In an interview, he said major jihadi groups have now sworn allegiance to ISIS, and the Taliban increasingly shows signs of following suit with the recent discovery that the reclusive Taliban leader, Mohammad Omar, has been dead for two years.
There are three main players in Afghanistan, he said, pointing to Hezb-e-Islami Gulbudin, Jallaldin Haqqani and the Taliban. He said al-Qaida has only a “bit part” in Afghanistan, supplying money, equipment, training and suicide bombers.
“All of these guys hate each other, especially the first three,” he said. “Haqqani Network flipped to ISIS a few months back. Gulbudin Hekmatyar, leader of the HiG, just swore allegiance to ISIS within the last couple weeks.
“There are some holdouts in the Taliban, but their commanders are peeling off steadily now that Omar has been officially declared dead,” he said.
The developments suggest ISIS is quickly coalescing various jihadi groups in Afghanistan.
“I’d say by the end of the year at the earliest, or by the next fighting season (spring), Afghanistan will be a unified ‘province’ of ISIS,” the U.S. intelligence officer said.
“I don’t know how much that means strategically, or what Pakistan is going to do about that, but ISIS has got to keep expanding – and Afghanistan is chock full of gem mines,” he said.
‘Just watch it all implode’
The U.S. intelligence officer previously told G2Bulletin that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate is financing not only the Afghan Taliban but also ISIS, with more Taliban members pledging allegiance to ISIS.
A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department denied the Pakistani ISI is helping to finance ISIS in Afghanistan.

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