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Isis Invades Afghanistan
thetimes.co.uk ^ | December 5 2015

Posted on 12/05/2015 10:25:17 PM PST by Helicondelta

Islamic State fighters have captured swathes of eastern Afghanistan in a drive to establish a new province of the group's self-styled caliphate on territory straddling the border with Pakistan.

Up to 1,600 fighters pledging allegiance to Isis are ruling much of four districts south of Jalalabad with the same ruthlessness that characterises the group's regime in Syria and Iraq: public beheadings, strict adherence to Koranic teachings foreign to Afghanistan, and extortion.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201512; afghanistan; iraq; isis; isiscaliphate; jalalabad; pakistan; syria; waronterror
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To: missnry
I thought the women wore the hijabs...

Those are hejabs.

21 posted on 12/06/2015 12:35:23 AM PST by piasa
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To: missnry
I thought the women wore the hijabs...

Those are hejabs. [On the other hand, they all have kneepads so those could be Bill Clinton's 72 virgins if he fully converts.]

22 posted on 12/06/2015 12:37:14 AM PST by piasa
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This MUST be mistaken. “Our supreme leader, his highness, emperor Barack Hussein Obama the first, the all knowing and all powerful, blessed be his name (TM)” told us that he had isil contained.

These must be lies from the micro-and-macro-aggression, racist, fear-mongering far right media.

Lies, nothing but lies.

Mark

(do I really need to add “/sarcasm?”)


23 posted on 12/06/2015 8:40:28 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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