130. What the Hell is "ISIS-K"?
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today we speak to researcher Blake Vincent about "ISIS-K", a momentary mainstream media fascination as the US left Afghanistan. These are the real details about "ISIS-K" / the Islamic State in Afghanistan / the Islamic State Khorasan Province.
NOTE: When Vincent says "Al-Shabab" he meant to say "Boko Haram". Mixed up his jihadist groups.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:08.9 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to researcher Blake |
| 0:17.0 | Vincent he's also the co-founder of the foldergap.com today he's going to be talking to us about the so-called ISIS K that we've been hearing about in Afghanistan |
| 0:30.0 | specifically since they launched twin suicide bombing attacks on the Kabul airport. |
| 0:36.7 | Blake is going to break it all down to us and explain exactly what the Islamic State |
| 0:41.2 | sell in Afghanistan, ISIS K, actually is. |
| 0:47.0 | Support us at Patreon.com slash Popular Front. popular front. First of all let's talk about the ISIS-K suicide bombing on the Kabul airport that was only like |
| 1:07.9 | just over a week ago now that's when you know the media started kind of talking more about this ISIS K branch in Afghanistan. |
| 1:17.0 | Maybe just take us back to the attack and explain what happened. |
| 1:22.0 | Right, so we had asked the Taliban to create a perimeter around the airport |
| 1:28.0 | where there were a bunch of Afghan citizens waiting to be evacuated. |
| 1:34.6 | And there's a lot of speculation as to why security |
| 1:40.6 | was as loose as it actually was and how that was even able to happen. |
| 1:44.8 | So I don't want to get into making any accusations. |
| 1:53.0 | But security was loose enough around the airport for that attack to even take place. |
| 2:02.0 | And in the process, 13 U.S. service members and I think 169 Afghan citizens were murdered in the process. |
| 2:16.0 | It was a very unfortunate situation. |
| 2:20.1 | Preventable, absolutely. |
| 2:22.3 | So yeah, so ISIS, K, they managed to get in there, they launched two suicide attacks and then all of a sudden everyone was like, who is ISIS K? |
| 2:32.4 | I mean, as we were just saying before we hit record I mean on popular front we were talking about Icy K in 2018 even |
| 2:40.0 | But still people are saying wow, it's this new invention. It's not a new invention. It's been here for a while, right? |
| 2:45.8 | Just to explain to us what is ISIS K? Right, and just to point out ISIS K is a bit of a misnomer, as ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and K being Khorazon which is and a term from antiquity referring to |
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