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THE ISLAMIC STATE IN KHORASAN ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI The Islamic State in Khorasan Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad HURST & COMPANY, LONDON First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL © Antonio Giustozzi, 2018 All rights reserved. The right of Antonio Giustozzi to be identified as the author of this publication is asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 9781849049641 hardback This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. www.hurstpublishers.com CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Glossary ix List of Acronyms xi List of Groups and Individuals xiii Introduction 1 1. How it All Began 19 2. Aims and Strategy 41 3. Efforts to ‘Synchronise’ IS-K with IS-Central 67 4. Hybrid: IS-K Structure Between Centralisation and Centrifugal Tendencies 89 5. Drivers of Support for IS-K 121 6. The Expansion of IS-K 139 7. The Funding of IS-K 161 8. Shaking Up the World of Khorasan’s Jihadism 173 9. The Dead End of Salafism and IS-K Adaptation 193 Conclusion 207 Appendix 1: The New Layha of Tehrik-e-Khalifat 221 Appendix 2: Organisational Diagram of IS-K, Early 2016 223 Appendix 3: The Jihadist Network of Khorasan in 2011, According to Interviewees. Only the Main Groups and Organisations are Mentioned 225 Appendix 4: The Jihadist Network of Khorasan in 2017, According to Interviewees. Only the Main Groups and Organisations are Mentioned 227 Notes 229 Index 283 v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book is the result of a research project carried out with the Royal United Service Institute and funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. The latter deserves special thanks, since the book would have been impossible to pro- duce without its generous contribution. The book also benefits from work done while researching articles for Jane’s, from small research projects done on occasion and from previous projects on the Afghan Taliban and the Central Asian jihadists. The author thanks all those involved and in particular Raffaello Pantucci (RUSI) and Emily Winterbotham (RUSI), who com- mented the original text and provided very useful advice. The author also wishes to thank Michael Dwyer, Sebastian Ballard, Prerana Patel, Jack McGinn and everybody else at Hurst, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism of the original manuscript. The author also wishes to thank all those who contributed to the develop- ment of his ideas and views on the subject in meetings, workshops and confer- ences. They are far too many to be mentioned here individually. Special thanks go to the researchers, who carried out the bulk of the inter- views in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other locations. They have to remain anonymous for security reasons, but their efforts were essential to the research project. The author assumes all responsibility for the analysis contained in this text, of course. vii
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