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| Iran, Afghanistan Announce Security Cooperation against IS |
| 2015-04-20 |
| [AnNahar] Afghanistan and Iran announced Sunday plans for enhanced security cooperation to combat threats from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, including possible joint military operations. Standing alongside visiting Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said the tumult hitting the region meant intelligence must be shared. His comments came after IS, which holds swathes of Syria and Iraq, said it was responsible for a suicide kaboom in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad which killed 33 people. The attack on Saturday at a state-owned bank where government workers were drawing their salaries was the first in Afghanistan claimed by IS. More than 100 people were also maimed. Ghani's two-day visit to Iran is his first since taking over from president Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... in September, and he was accompanied on the trip by his foreign minister and minister for oil and mines. The Afghan leader has repeatedly raised the prospect of IS making inroads in his country, though the jihadist group has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan. A former finance minister and World Bank technocrat, Ghani said IS presented "a serious danger and different form of terrorism". "People die daily, we face barbarism," he said at a joint presser, prompting Rouhani to nod in agreement. "And without greater cooperation a macabre phenomenon such as Daesh cannot be contained," Ghani said, using an Arabic acronym for IS. Rouhani said: "We have agreed to cooperate further in the fight against terrorism, violence and extremism in the region, especially in border regions. "We need intelligence sharing and, if necessary, cooperation in operations because the problems that exist are not restricted and gradually spread throughout the region, affecting everyone." The two leaders did not specify further what they thought could be done to confront IS, which swept into Iraq from Syria last June. The group holds djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq's second city. Iran has been central in the Baghdad government's fightback against IS, coordinating Shiite militias and providing military advisers from its powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps. The largest such operation saw IS cleared early this month from Tikrit, a city north of Baghdad and the childhood home of executed Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have seen defections to IS in recent months, with some voicing their disaffection with their one-eyed supreme leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... who has not been seen in almost 14 years. A person purporting to be an IS front man said in a call to Agence La Belle France Presse that the group was behind the Jalalabad bombing. An online post allegedly from IS made the same claim, but could not be verified. Iran and Afghanistan have close ties. In 2001, Tehran took the rare step of cooperating with Washington in a U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban regime from power in Kabul. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 IRAN repor is in favor of Trilateralism or better for AFPAK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-20 00:24 |