I'm John Batch with my colleagues Bill Rajov at the Foundation for the Defense of

Democracy and Hisena Connie of the Hudson Institute.

Bill, the question raised now by Moscow, it's getting out of hand, but first Mr. Putin suggests

that the shooters, the alleged shooters now apprehended and on view in a Moscow court

were heading for Ukraine and that Ukraine had a hand in this was the implication.

Now we have Reuters reporting that bots out of

Moscow were blaming MI6 in some fashion I can't possibly connect. However I

mention all of this because ISIS K is a shadowy

organization that hasn't heretofore been outside of its region to my

knowledge and when it's first started it seemed that disaffected from al-Qaeda of the Taliban.

ISIS K, does it maintain training camps in Afghanistan the way al-Qaeda does?

Does it have shadow characters living in Cabal the way Al-Qaeda does, Bill?

Well, the Islamic State certainly is operating in Afghanistan.

It's estimated to have several thousand fighters there.

However, it's not doing so with the approval of the Taliban. The Islamic State and the Taliban

and by default, Al Qaeda and its allies are enemies of the Islamic State because the Taliban and

al-Qaeda, they won't swear allegiance to the Amir or the leader of the Islamic State, they won't play, you know, they won't get on board with the Islamic States program.

The Taliban wants primacy of the jihad in Afghanistan.

So this is what they are they are enemies and not allies.

Now some will make the argument well this is great we should support the Taliban because

it opposes the Islamic State.

Well, they can both be bad.

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