in areas they control, he says, they impose harsh shariah law, execute civilians and others they suspect are spies. they want to attract and recruit the most ardent sociopaths in the country and their calling card is thisa rapacious and wanton violence against anyone that stands in their way. that helps them bring in other vierts fighters. reporter: isis-k has carried out devastating suicide attacks in afghanistan in recent years including an attack on a school for girls this spring which according to a pentagon assessment, killed at least 68 people, most of them girls. is isis-k a threat to wage broader war against or even overthrow the taliban? the terrorism experts we spoke to don t think so. the taliban have far greater numbers of fighters, they say.
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inside, but that is the point of most vulnerability. you don t want to get a situation in which you can have people with weapons or bombs getting inside the base. that would be even more disastrous. yeah. but certainly from a civilian perspective, this presented itself a most appalling targ frt the isis-k members. general hertling, as you look at the video prom pbs that shows the extreme close quarters that u.s. service members are working under, is this how you imagined it? is there any way given the reality of the situation on the ground to figure this out in the next couple days? probably not a whole lot of changes can be made, anderson. what i got to tell you is, it s exactly the way i imagined it because two things. first of all, the afghan culture is not one that lines up in queues. so you don t have a culture that is polite and allows people to get in front of you or have a straight solid line waiting for a movie or waiting to get into a
are or what they represent. i hadn t really heard that term in quite a while. washington post reporter has written extensively about isis and this off chute. he is author of a black flag. he joins me now. as somebody who studied isis-k, what is your reaction to this attack, their claim of responsibility? actually, let s just start with who is isis-k? for a lot of people, it is the first time they are hearing that term. yeah, it is a new one to most folks but they have actually been around since about 2014, 2015. and so, the story of them is if you remember back in the in the sort of the hayday of the caliphate, sort of the project of isis was to create these little chapters. and one of them was isis-khorasan. the khorasan province which is ancient muslim land, what is really afghanistan-iran, part of that part of the world. and so, they keep up in 2014, 2015 and they became pretty powerful, pretty quickly. and became a problem for the u.s. forces there but also for
to today. the taliban sheltered al-qaeda, osama bin laden s al-qaeda, which led to the 9/11 attacks. but going back about five or six years ago, the islamic state, then known as isis, began to break away from al-qaeda. this was a iraq and syria. but they also had a network of terrorist groups, which corresponds with the afghanistan, pakistan region. which was then a splinter and a talent challenger to al-qaeda. by extension, that makes them a challenger to the taliban. so to think of isis-k, they are younger generally, they are more about violence first and ideas second, and they are trying to create their own separate independent state. separately, al-qaeda is kind of scene as the older generation. they are more moderate by isis stands, which may seem crazy to us after the 9/11 era. but they also see the taliban as very moderate, trying to become like a state negotiating with other states. for them, the u.s. at this
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