#Afghanistan: ISIS attacks the Taliban. Bill Roggio, FDD
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
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#Afghanistan: ISIS attacks the Taliban. Bill Roggio, FDD
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/30/pakistan-explosion-political-event-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province
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| 0:39.0 | from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush across North Africa into the Sahil, the border of the desert and south into the cone of Africa. |
| 0:52.0 | Right now, however, we're going to tuck up on a story that is breaking news in Pakistan. |
| 0:57.0 | Pakistan police suspect Islamic State in bomb blasts that killed at least 44. |
| 1:02.0 | This was at a rally pro Taliban rally in Afghanistan, I mean in Pakistan. |
| 1:10.0 | The attack is believed to have come out of Afghanistan or elements of Afghanistan of ISIS. |
| 1:17.0 | I mention all this because it's all balled up into the confusion of how Afghanistan is now a state that is both the source of transnational terror and the source of the kind of murder incorporated that represents ISIS. |
| 1:32.0 | Bill, what we have in Pakistan is a country that's extremely vulnerable to the Taliban of Pakistan, the TTP. |
| 1:40.0 | It's also vulnerable to ISIS and ISIS is operating out of Afghanistan. |
| 1:46.0 | The Taliban Pakistan is operating out of Afghanistan. Pakistan itself is a vulnerable state to these bad actors. |
| 1:55.0 | This alone guarantees that we solve nothing by leaving Afghanistan behind. Do I say that correctly? |
| 2:03.0 | Yes, John, that's that is correct. |
| 2:05.0 | Concerned to this attack, this political party in Pakistan is not just pro Taliban, you would pretty much consider them a Taliban political party within the Pakistani establishment. |
| 2:18.0 | They've sent thousands of fighters into Afghanistan in the past, particularly after the US invasion, the person that it's named after, |
| 2:27.0 | is a prominent Taliban cleric and is cheerleading for the Taliban. |
| 2:33.0 | This group, this political party, whatever you want to call them, really embodies that cross-border nature of the jihadist threat that with between Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
| 2:46.0 | And the ISIS launching the attack, you make the distinction bill that the Taliban opposes ISIS and vice versa. Do I say that correctly? |
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