The Growing Threat of Islamist Terrorism After the Moscow Massacre

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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After over 140 people were killed at a concert venue in Moscow, Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or ISKP, an Afghanistan-based offshoot of ISIS, quickly claimed responsibility. Who are ISKP and what wider threat do they pose to the West and the U.S. in particular? On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, Afghan Armed Forces Lieutenant General Sami Sadat tells Gerry Baker why he thinks ISKP will strike again and soon - - perhaps even in the U.S. He also explains how the chaotic and hurried U.S. departure from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Doha Accord of 2020 helped set the conditions for the resurgence of the terrorist menace. According to Sadat, the Biden administration's plans to fight the enemy from "over the horizon" are doomed to fail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4	This week is ISIS back?
0:37.2	Last weekend, terrorists killed more than 140 people
0:39.9	at a concert hall venue in Moscow. Despite initial attempts by Vladimir Putin to connect the attack
0:44.9	with Ukraine, it seems certain that this was another episode of Islamist terrorism. U.S.
0:50.5	intelligence agencies had warned Russia in advance of the risk of an attack, and shortly
0:54.9	afterwards, the group ISKP, Islamic State in Horacean province, as it's known, claimed responsibility.
1:02.3	This burgeoning group was behind the bombing of a mosque in Iran in January that killed more than
1:07.2	100 people, and was also responsible for the attack at Kabul Airport in 2021
1:11.4	during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that claimed the lives of 13 American
1:16.2	servicemen and women and 170 Afghan civilians. ISIS course, in its original form, once controlled
1:22.2	a large swath of territory in Syria and Iraq, and it exercised a reign of terror, which included savage murders,
1:29.0	as we are all too familiar with, of American civilians. In 2015, US and other forces routed the
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