ISIL: Target Russia Thousands of ISIL fighters are training in the mountains of Afghanistan, plottin

[Sunlei]

-TITLE_ISIL: Target Russia Thousands of ISIL fighters are training in the mountains of Afghanistan, plotting an attack on the Kremlin. _ TITLE_

Thousands of ISIL fighters from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere are regrouping in the virtually impregnable mountains of Afghanistan, plotting revenge against the Kremlin. ISIL's high command have given orders to target Russian cities, with thousands of trained fighters ready to act at any time.

Most recently, a lone terrorist on the metro in St Petersburg demonstrated the vulnerability of any modern city. On a moving train, in the middle of the day, a young Uzbek man with Russian citizenship detonated a bomb made with TNT and packed with shrapnel. Dozens were hurt and 15 killed. The bomber was later reported in the Russian media to have been in Syria with ISIL in 2014.

"The terrorists you see in Syria are the same individuals that are here now in Afghanistan. These are terrorists that come from different countries - from Tajikistan, from Uzbekistan, Chechnya. It's a strategic place. They could go across the border and finally their main goal is Russia," he says.

As well as attacking isolated villages, ISIL has brought terror to the capital, Kabul. In one incident alone, 80 people were killed in a suicide bombing. So if they manage to infiltrate Russia with the number of trained sleeper cells they speak of, then the carnage they currently create in Afghanistan is merely a precursor to their plans for Moscow, St Petersburg and other target cities.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2017/05/isil-target-russia-170522095304580.html

The largest airport in the world in Turkey had 3 suicide bombers- they had Russian passports. Currently Russian produces thousands of IS terrorists. IMO, immigration and visas from Russia should be carefully scrutinized for terrorists and others intent on attacking Americas democracy. Destabilizing our country like what happened so quickly to Turkey.

[Not Ruth]

1. Is Afghanistan near the Kremlin?

[renegade000]

2. In retrospect, I've started wondering about the Boston marathon bombers...

Given their Russian (Dagenstani/Chechyn) background, and the timing which aligned closely with Snowden's anti-NSA leaks.

[Igel]

4. Keep on going.

Russia's allegedly funding Afghanistan rebels. Could it be they're just paying them off, like Putin did with his BFF Kadyrov in Chechnya, to keep them on a leash?



Or perhaps it's just pareidolia.

Same with the OP. It's the kind of thing where I have to wonder (a) whether training has taken place in the places and quantity cited, (b) if it's taken place for the purpose cited and (c) if so, whether ISIS has had squat to do with it.

ISIS, and extremists in general, have a credibility problem.

[DetlefK]

3. The chechen ISIS-members are a special political problem:

The failed secession from Russia, and the brutal pacification-campaign that followed, have turned the chechen people towards extremism. Kadyrov has used radical islam as the banner to re-unify his people, to give them purpose, and to keep them disciplined and loyal to Moscow.

Putin knows that Chechnya is full of potential islamist terrorists. But he cannot do anything about it: Calling out the extremism would mean confronting Kadyrov. And Putin cannot afford to make Kadyrov an enemy. Without Kadyrov, even more Chechens would turn towards radical islamism even faster.