Media reported that in an assassination attack, Taliban Deputy Defense Minister Hamdullah was assassinated on the streets of Kabul. Hamdullah belongs to the Taliban's Haqqani network system and is also the commander of the Taliban's most elite Badri 313 special forces, responsible for guard and garrison tasks in the capital Kabul.
Judging from the video of the assassination scene, the gunman arrived at the scene on a three-pronged trampoline, and when the Taliban Deputy Defense Minister's convoy passed, the convoy was suddenly blocked on the side of the road because of the large number of cars on the road. It was at this time that the gunman on the three trampolines suddenly rushed out, very calmly raised his ak to aim, and fired 20 shots directly to Kill Hamdullah in the car.
You can see that these gunmen are carefully planned to act suddenly at congested intersections. He then fled the scene with three trampolines, and by this time, Hamdullah's bodyguards had no time to react, and the assassination was over.
With the official withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan and the "abandonment" of the former Afghan government and its armed forces, according to US media reports, former Afghan intelligence personnel and special forces soldiers have actively chosen to join the ISK organization to launch attacks on the Taliban in order to survive. The actions of these people, in addition to including bomb explosions, are more tactical.
In the last 2 months, the ISK group has launched at least 4 large-scale attacks in Afghanistan, causing hundreds of casualties. Now, the ISK is engaged in an irregular war. Of course, the source of all this is poverty, and now the Afghan economy is very difficult, and food is also very tight. CNN reported that in a refugee camp in Badegis province in northwestern Afghanistan, a family sold their 9-year-old daughter as a child bride in order to get food for survival, saying the phenomenon was widespread in the region.
Fearful of retaliation and lured by money, more and more former Afghan intelligence officers and military personnel trained by the United States are now joining the ISK. As a result, the battle is more of an irregular war.
From 2001 to 2021, the Taliban launched attacks throughout Afghanistan, with various bomb attacks. But now that the Taliban are in power, they also face how to suppress bomb attacks once and for all. It was a hybrid war in which the enemy would attack from different weak positions and weak links, and the Taliban would not be able to deploy heavy troops everywhere.
For example, in this Kabul hospital bombing, the ISK group used a motorcycle bomb to blow up 10 armed guards at the entrance of the hospital. Four gunmen then used car bombs to reinforce Taliban reinforcements. This kind of attack can be said to be invincible, requiring a huge public security force, criminal investigation force and electronic monitoring and listening equipment.
For the United States, the more attacks organized in Afghanistan, the more violent. The more justified the U.S. needs to station troops in Central Asia and India, the more it says it can monitor and combat these militant groups up close. Of course, the U.S. military really wants to station troops in Central Asia and India, not just to fight the ISK organization, such a small target, but to grasp the soft abdomen of Eurasia and appear in russia's weakest position.
As a result, the United States has been seizing $9 billion and gold stored by the Central Bank of Afghanistan and has refused to provide food aid to Afghanistan. Because, as long as the economic and food crisis in Afghanistan is more serious, there will be more attacks. Poverty leads to more bombings, more unrest, and more people joining the ISK group to launch attacks.
The US envoy has all the more reason to persuade India and Central Asian countries to allow the US military to establish military bases and station a large number of US troops. The United States also has a purpose, that is, by controlling Central Asia, it can connect with the Middle East, and then the strategic purpose of the United States will be achieved. Then the United States controls the core strategic area of Eurasia, energy, and access are controlled.