I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.

[Pat Mustard]

And the "ISIS cell" in Afghanistan seems to have sprung up from nowhere. Considering the situation within Afghanistan and with respect to Pakistan, I'm very sceptical as to what was actually hit. I wouldn't be too surprised that what was bombed was an old disused Al-Qaeda base of no strategic worth at all.

Out of nowhere? Uh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_St...n_Province

ISIS like to announce a lot of things that they've not done. And given that Al-Qaeda are the favoured jihadist force in Afghanistan (mainly due to the Pakistani spooks, ISI) why would their worst enemies be let in to the country?

I am very much sceptical about any of the information out there about the current "crisis" (frankly the current crowd are a bunch of wasteful amateurs when you compare them with some of the terrorist groups Europe managed to germinate without any outside help). We get a lot of talk about how different groups are entrenching themselves in different areas, but it is never discussed where they got their munitions and funding from (all too often indirectly from the US and UK through the likes of Saudi Arabia and Israel), how people are pushed into them (the masses of airstrikes that hit only innocent civilians get brushed under the carpet with depressing regularity), and how easily that today's allies become tomorrows "worst threat to world peace". Western governments are working in a regional political and cultural situation they don't understand, don't want to learn about and worst of all in which they keep repeating the same mistakes.