Taliban attempts to cover up images posted by an Uzbek jihadist group in Afghanistan

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FDD's Long War Journal

Caleb Weiss

July 8, 2020

Photo released by Katibat Imam al-Bukhari yesterday, claiming a joint raid with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Yesterday, FDD’s Long War Journal reported on new images released by the Afghanistan branch of Katibat Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), an Uzbek jihadist group loyal to the Taliban that fights under its banner.

The Taliban, which has consistently lied about the presence of foreign fighters in Afghanistan, was not happy with our coverage.

In a tweet released earlier today by its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban claimed that “these images have been stolen from our archive.”

Mujahid tweets that the images were “falsified by anti-peace circles for propaganda.” The same photo produced by KIB, but without the group’s watermarks, was also tweeted out by Mujahid.

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