The Roots of Evil
We cannot discuss ISIS-K without first discussing ISIS itself. The so-called Islamic State is not a sovereign entity, and it never has been. At this point, evidence that Daesh was a creation of NATO intelligence is so clear that even the US State Department admits it in internal documents. Curiously, while they maintain publicly that they were not involved, a credulous media dependent on access to the drip feed of information the State Department provides in order to write stories and sell ads do not question this obvious lie.
Indeed, rather than doing their job by holding those in power accountable for their actions, the press instead creates elaborate fantasies linking Al-Qaeda and ISIS to the US government’s favored villains of the day, especially Putin and Assad.
This happens despite Jake Sullivan, the propaganda minister for the Biden regime, openly admitting that Al-Qaeda is on America’s side in Syria. Even John Kerry, the secretary of state under Obama freely admits that the regime sought to use ISIS as leverage against Assad. His counterparts in the Zionist entity have openly stated the same on many occasions.
The hope was that ISIS would force Assad to negotiate, but this plan was ruined by Putin’s support of the Syrian government. These facts are conspicuously ignored by the “free press” in favor of editorials written by naval officers turned General Atomics employees.
Even beyond these admissions, the indisputable fact remains that ISIS would never have existed in the first place if not for the United States’ illegal, unjustifiable and genocidal full-scale invasion of Iraq, a country which did not have weapons of mass destruction and was violently opposed to Al-Qaeda.
Indeed, as early as the 1990s, Al-Qaeda was operating terrorist groups in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, with the goal of overthrowing Saddam’s secular government and replacing it with a fundamentalist Wahhabi state. Saddam was unable to stop the rise of Al-Qaeda mostly because Iraq suffered under sanctions so severe that they killed over half a million Iraqi children.
After the US invaded in 2003 and toppled the Iraqi government with almost no plan for what to do next, they created a power vacuum as their collaborators failed to maintain order. It is a fact beyond dispute that Daesh emerged from Al-Qaeda Iraq, capitalizing on the chaos to form their caliphate in the vacuum created by America’s illegal full-scale invasion of Iraq.
The group’s founder, Ibrahim al-Badri, was a former imam who was radicalized after his illegal detention and torture by American invaders. His friends knew him as a quiet man and committed pacifist who led Quran study lessons and organized soccer tournaments for the local youth.
In 2004, after the American murderers came to “free” his country, he was arrested without charge based entirely on hearsay. His “liberators” held him for almost a year at Camp Bucca and the infamous Abu Ghraib prison where he was savagely tortured by the bandits who invaded his country over a lie. The experience was so traumatic that Ibrahim al-Badri did not survive, the man who the American thugs released from prison for lack of evidence was reborn as Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and he would become the most infamous terrorist the country had ever seen.
While the American propaganda ministers can say that they did not create ISIS, the fact is that the US government planted the seed, watered it with blood and weeded the garden so it could grow.
It cannot be mentioned too often that one of the primary backers of America’s illegal, genocidal full-scale invasion of Iraq was a senator from Delaware named Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Biden sat shoulder to shoulder with George W. Bush, telling us that Saddam Hussein had WMDs in the silo 45 minutes from launch and was working in league with Al-Qaeda. Both of these were lies, and he knew it.
Despite publicly condemning it, Biden has spent 20 years covering up the evidence and protecting the perpetrators of NATO’s widespread campaign of illegal detention, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. The situation is so dire that America refuses to share evidence of Russia’s alleged war crimes in Ukraine out of fear that Russia will retaliate with evidence of America’s crimes in the Middle East. To this day, thousands of victims of Biden’s wars are still held at black sites all around the world. They cannot be charged for lack of evidence, and they cannot be released out of fear that they will talk to the media. These are called “ghost detainees”, people who have simply vanished without a trace to satiate the ravenous appetites of Biden’s masters on Wall Street.
Biden was also instrumental in the expansion of America’s illegal wars into Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and more. He was not a bit player in this game, he personally took point on the Obama regime’s intentional destabilization of Syria, even touring the arms bazaars of Jordan to ensure that the Al-Qaeda operatives hastily rebranded as “moderate rebels” were getting their money’s worth. All in all, Biden sent over 1 billion dollars worth of weapons to terrorists in Syria.
Unsurprisingly, and intentionally, most of these weapons ended up in the hands of Daesh. The US even provided training and fire support to Daesh, and their allies in Turkey, the Gulf and the Zionist entity openly protected Daesh fighters, even providing them with medical treatment before infiltrating them back into Syria.
ISIS is therefore as much the creation of Biden as Baghdadi, and all the death and destruction caused by the Caliphate is his legacy. Before his handlers finally stopped him, the rabid dog used to brag about how the war could not have happened without him rallying Democratic support behind it. It may have been the only time in his life that he has ever told the truth.
The Enemy of our Enemy
'“Targeting Russian interests in Afghanistan and Central Asia…deriv[ed] from Russia’s intervention in Syria. Advisers from IS-Central were constantly pushing for starting operations in Central Asia, as were the donors. Both in the case of Iran and Russia, targeting their interests served not only IS-Central’s purpose, but was also again a way to make IS-K useful to donors, who had similar reasons for wanting to retaliate against these two countries.”-Antonio Giustozzi
ISIS-K was officially founded in 2015, the same year when Sanaullah Ghafari (aka Shahab al-Muhajir) allegedly defected from the Taliban to Daesh, leading a party of 35 commandos who swore fealty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. At first, the defection seemed genuine, this sort of thing happens quite often among the Jihadi mercenaries infesting the region.
However, the reality is considerably more murky.
Many branches of Daesh are connected to the original in little more than name, but in the case of ISIS-K, a concerted and very expensive effort was made to maximize this opportunity. According to interviews of ISIS-K fighters carried out by Italian journalist Antonio Giustozzi in his book “The Islamic State in Khorasan”, the group first emerged as the result of a deal between the known CIA asset Jalaluddin Haqqani and ISIS. Daesh paid Haqqani over $30 million in exchange for 400 veteran Afghan Jihadis to fight as mercenaries in Syria.
Ghafari (now re-christened Shahab al-Muhajir) and his 35 commandos were the first group of many sent to fulfill that deal. They were processed by Turkish intelligence and infiltrated into Syria through the north of the country. The group was wildly successful and after years of fighting, they were hired on as full members of Daesh and sent to start a new chapter in Afghanistan.
Daesh’s central command invested lavishly in their new branch with money given to them by backers in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Gulf monarchs felt betrayed by their former proxy, the Taliban, forming close relations with Iran and felt compelled to retaliate. ISIS-K was their primary weapon in this struggle and for many years was one of the most bitter enemies of the Taliban. ISIS-K launched hundreds of attacks in Afghanistan, killing thousands, and was seemingly impossible to wipe out thanks to support from America and it’s allies.
Their most notable attack before the American withdrawal was a 2016 attack on peaceful Hazara protesters in Kabul, demonstrating against a the US backed puppet regime’s decision to bypass their province with a major electrification project. This was seen as a continuation of long running discrimination against the Hazara by the Afghan government and the protests drew tens of thousands.
On July 23rd, two suicide bombs detonated during a protest march, killing 90 and wounding over 300. While ISIS claimed responsibility, the Hazara activists suspected that US backed despot and former World Bank employee Ashraf Ghani was truly responsible and had used ISIS as a cats paw. The bombing effectively ended the Hazara protest movement, and put an end to the ongoing reform process to improve minority rights in Afghanistan.
After the final defeat of the American occupiers and their collaborators 2021, the remit of ISIS-K was rapidly increased. Many of the CIA trained spies and commandos from the former Afghan puppet regime suddenly joined ISIS-K, greatly bolstering the unit’s capabilities. This came in preparation for opening a new front in America’s long planned war against Russia. By this time, Sanaullah Ghafari was in charge of ISIS-K, and the former contractor at Bagram Air Force Base wasted little time in carrying out his new mission.
Rather than just an anti-Iran and anti-Taliban proxy, ISIS-K began to expand their operations across the border into Central Asia, then Russia. At first, the plan was to force a Russian intervention into Central Asia through terrorist attacks in the region. It was hoped that these countries would appeal to Russia for help, dragging the Russians into an expensive quagmire on their borders and stretching their resources thin.
The first attack launched by ISIS-K outside of Afghanistan came in 2022 when the group launched a rack of Grad rockets across the border into Uzbekistan. ISIS claimed the attack was in revenge for the Taliban’s killing of their previous leader, an operation in which Uzbekistan had no involvement whatsoever. Soon after, they launched a similar attack on Tajikistan, this time without the post-hoc justification. Both of these attacks failed, causing no causalities and not leading to the desired goal of dragging Russia into a war.
Undeterred, ISIS-K expanded their work into Russia itself. From 2022 to the attacks on the Crocus Concert Hall in 2024, the Russian FSB launched several operations against ISIS-K. Dozens of ISIS militants were arrested throughout Russia and their plots were foiled. In March, the FSB killed 6 ISIS militants in Ingushetia, and on March 22nd, the same day as the concert hall shootings, they came back to the same town and arrested 30 more.
Despite this pressure, ISIS-K finally succeeded on March 22nd, killing nearly 150 people. The perpetrators, a group of Tajik men, were detained driving towards the Ukrainian border where Russian intelligence claims they were awaiting a Ukrainian SBU contact who would spirit them away into Ukraine.
Despite the United States’ vehement denials, it would not be the first time that the SBU has collaborated with ISIS and similar Jihadis. Not only are a large portion of the Kiev junta’s mercenary forces Jihadi fighters from central Asia, but ISIS leaders have been caught in the country on multiple occasions. Most notable was Al Bara Shishani, ISIS’ deputy minister of war and former head of special operations, who lived openly in Kiev for nearly 2 years before he was finally arrested in 2019.
Journalists estimate that hundreds of ISIS officers fled from Syria into NATO member Turkey, and from there were allowed to travel into Ukraine. While a few high profile offenders such as Shisahani have been arrested, the vast majority have not.
Many even serve openly, working under the aegis of an organization called Ajnad al-Kavkaz. This group was formerly a member of the Army of Conquest, an alliance of anti-Assad groups led by Al-Qaeda in Syria, until their defeat by government forces led to their flight to Ukraine where they were welcomed with open arms. AK fighters have seen combat all around Ukraine, and were one of the vanguards of the regime’s suicidal defense of Bakhmut. While the group was seriously diminished in the failed battle they still have over 200 fighters according to Ukrainian sources.
Ukraine does not just import Jihadis, the extreme far right junta which has controlled the state since the Maidan coup has also created a fertile ground for breeding it’s own. IS aligned fighters are so common in Ukraine that they even find their way into the regime’s propaganda, such as this video from British tabloid “The Sun” which clearly shows Ukrainian fighters emblazoned with ISIS patches evacuating wounded fighters.
The most infamous of these Ukrainian jihadis was Danil “Mujahid” al-Takbir (formerly Danil Lyashuk), a terrorist who found no contradictions between his devout neo-Nazism and Islamic faith.
Openly aligned with ISIS, al-Takbir terrorized the citizens of Donbass with such extreme brutality that even a Ukrainian court found him guilty of war crimes, including robbery, torture, murder and serial rape, including the rape of children. “Mujahid” was the chief torturer for his unit “Tornado”, one of many “Special Tasks Patrol” units formed with American assistance after the Maidan coup. Mujahid admitted to the crimes, quipping “Without torture, life would not be worth living. Nothing makes you feel better when you have someone's life in your hands.”
After the invasion, al-Takbir was pardoned by Zelensky, given British weapons and SAS training, then sent back to the front to terrorize the people of Donbass again. He was killed by a Russian drone in April of 2023.
It is unclear to what extent the SBU collaborated with the Crocus hall attacks. It makes very little difference if Dmytro Kuleba’s conversation with Pakistani intelligence last summer (who trains ISIS-K fighters in Baluchistan) presages some deeper involvement or if the SBU was simply trying to help out an ally. Neither the SBU nor the so-called Islamic State have ever been a truly sovereign entity. They do not and cannot act without the funding, support and approval of their American masters.
Both Ukraine and the Islamic State have been carefully cultivated over decades to as part of an intentional strategy to weaken Russia, Syria and anyone else who opposes America’s murderous “rules based international order.” What we are seeing now is the culmination of decades of geopolitical strategy, playing out to it’s bloody crescendo in Ukraine.
Fortunately for all of us, it seems like the killing machine has finally broken down. Now forced to face off against real soldiers instead of children and farmers, it turns out that NATO is more bark than bite. The walled garden they built with with the blood and suffering of so many people is clogged with weeds, it’s once fertile soil ruined from pollution and over-exploitation. As America’s proxies in Ukraine and the Zionist entity stand on the knife edge of defeat, they can only watch impotently after the ruling class sold off all their factories for pennies on the dollar.
Before long, their Caliphate will fall, both in Washington and in Syria!