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Radio War Nerd #294 — Blowback: Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K) (Patreon)

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2021-09-01 00:50:37
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Recorded: August 31, 2021

The War Nerd and Ames try to answer the two most important questions about IS-K that no one seems interested in asking, or answering: Which interests bankrolled IS-K, and what strategic purpose(s) does IS-K serve?

We reference Antonio Giustozzi's excellent book "The Islamic State in Khorasan".

Maps:

*IS's Khorasan plan

*IS-K training camps, June 2015

*IS-K battles with the Taliban, 2017-2018

Total time: 1:17:49

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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PW

Indubidably!

Marc Silverstein

With all due respect, please change your intro song

MoldyTolge

I’m too much of a poseur to critique their music

Evan

Hah, this is literally what I've been asking around about. Can't wait to check this episode when I'm in audio mode.

MoldyTolge

So cynical, surely a faction of Moderate Rebels exists inside IS-K? All jokes aside, all the War Nerds have been waiting years for coverage of these guys, great work

Kevin Hickey

It’s iconic, you philistine!

Lionel Boyd Johnson

Glad your mom is doing better Mark! Surgeons never explain that the hard part isn't the surgery, it's the recovery after the surgery. Hope she continues to do well. Great episode, thanks guys. There's not enough "follow the money" journalism, glad you guys are keeping it real. Your Afghanistan coverage has been fantastic, please keep it up!

Haemu

Bad advice.

Tariq

please don’t. it kicks so much ass

Mark Ames

Ha good point, thanks!

Dorst Savijeski

Offtopic, nagorno karabach, clear turkey out of Kabul, but fuck my life EU team insecurity thinks it's a good idea to destroy Axum???? Mavado-i am not special, just know history less good than the average war nerd

Dorst Savijeski

Eritrea is not as bad as philisitine arbamitic Palestine, fuck my life

Dorst Savijeski

Better tell the truth, yes I am the missionary Saint Betricia talked about who was going to bring peace understanding and traditional values back to the west.

Dorst Savijeski

If you pray to Beatrice she delays menopause untill you have triplets or more

MS

No. Keep it the original. Oh, and just to say how much I love snippets of music from Brendan's albums. I really must buy one of his albums.

MS

Isn't it odd, how no mainstream hacks (BBC, Grauniad etc) have bothered to ask this simple, bleeding obvious question? No wonder people hate journos so much. :)

MS

This is the kind of info that should be clipped into a 2-3 in segment (with captions etc) for your YouTube channel. I swear, it's the best way for the War Nerd to gain serious traction.

carlquist harris

We poseurs are a major faction within the war nerd community. Poseurs : War Nerds :: IS-K : ISIS

Henry Nichols

When Biden says the US will continue to strike IS-K in Afghanistan via drone, how does that relate to the strategic benefit to the Western/NATO empire if IS-K continues to grow? Will the strikes just be minor and ultimately inconsequential to provide a kind of cover while our proxies continue to fund IS-K? Will the strikes be said to be targeting IS-K and instead hit other targets? Or, is Biden actually not in line with the strategy that the majority of the Blob would prefer?

xxx

Never change the intro! I even learned it on guitar!

Samson

cool!

a clash of purple

I don't think a majority of the Blob agrees on anything except bigger budgets forever, unconditional support for Israel and Saudi Arabia, & unconditional hatred for Iran and China. These are really dumb, corrupt people, and I think they're too deluded to come up with much in the way of coherent strategies. As far as IS-K goes, as long as the brand is useful and there's money behind it, it doesn't really matter how many people affiliated with them are killed. Biden can do all the serious drone strikes he wants to salve his ego, it won't do anything to prevent IS-K from fulfilling the role that intelligence agencies have for it.

Aditya V

Great review of the media through Peter Baker. Need more of this.

Dorst Savijeski

Offtopic, did some DD and it might be this whole patreon is a very elaborate and good honey trap for Ebay. Most probably their going to upsell the community at some point leveraged with your house and livelihood. I warned you but do your own DD.

Dorst Savijeski

Ebays mother blamed St. Beatrice for her the neoliberal times her son grew up in...., not his fault.

Dorst Savijeski

It's allways the mother never any questions about the situations, times , and problems

Dorst Savijeski

There you go, it took him two days since after he sold his house of pay later. He setup a deal for future income where he helps find solution (good back office would be cheaper) at a auction price...(*)

Dorst Savijeski

Zag ik niet comen dat Sybert, zo goed is. Lorem ipsulum bv, niemand bezeikt jullie zijn gewoon mega dom. Blabla bla niet eerlijk een hoofdaanmener en ondernemers (die hadden slimmer kunnen zijn maar lockdown), blabla no covaxx in Uganda their to stupid, blabla 2021. Is geen grapje in Africa is corps Diplo blabla afgeschreven behalve ambassade werk. FF bellen FF nadenenken. 20 cent voor stofmaskers en een lijstje met (zwarte he) mensen die de productie kunnen vergroten. (Dutch embassy has to build as properiatary liaison network, why??? I dunno they need info and meat Nobel prize winners with blabla we can give you this for more blabla)

Dorst Savijeski

Then what Nobel Prize winner and Peters will find out who I helped....blablabla (if you didn't want the plan to to succeed your fin3ish) =👎, sexual violence is insecurity construct it's not endemic to Africa. Anyways work work and more

PW

On a side note re: Follow The Money. I think a great guest who would fit right in to the War Nerd Universe is Michael Hudson. John and he may have been separated at birth but he went into economics instead of rhetoric. He can take the otherwise insufferable language of economics and turn it into simple "why didn't I think of that?" type of rhetoric. Pick any of his interviews or lectures on youtube for a looksee. Now I have to get back to managing the Sod Farm here. Yyyep.

PW

In fact Michael Hudson quotes Mark and Yasha in his book "Finance As Warfare", on page 5, footnote 4.

CR

xnfec

He was also Trotsky's god-son

Robert Rowe

But they cut out the part of the image where the "Carlyle Group" first launched the plane, then grabbed Uncle Sam's wallet & stole all his credit cards when he dropped it during the shock of that stab in the back.

Stephen Powers

I would also like to throw in a vote for a Michael Hudson episode or series. John has brought up his purported ignorance of money several times lately, and Hudson seems like the ideal remedy. I know he gets brought up a lot on the RWN Facebook page as well.