Here's a hypothesis for you (courtesy of ZH co

Here's a hypothesis for you (courtesy of ZH comments):
ISIS-K is a creation of the US, a tool of the US. ISIS members from eastern Syria were helicoptered to Afghanistan to seed a new iteration of the Toyota driving, Nike wearing, head-chopping terror outfit with a superb social media infrastructure.

US is retreating from Afghanistan in a disorganised manner (because Bagram was closed in favour of a civilian airport) that embarrasses the US President, and the MIC and CIA need a justification for going back in (after embarrassing the sitting President into compliance).

So CIA or JSOC (whoever their handlers are) call up ISIS-K and say "we need one of your morons to martyr himself for the God of Mammon at HKIA, and he needs to take out some Marines in the process - as many as possible - and its got to be right near a gate."

So some Madrassa drop-out duly gets kitted up and sent to do the business. Does a great job - makes a big scene, a big mess, takes out a dozen Marines, and to top it all off, the guys in the towers freak out and start spraying the crowd with 5.56 x 45 NATO. Hey, every Afghani looks the same, right? They're Muslims, so count for nothing - just collateral damage and if they get lucky and hit an ISIS guy as well. But mainly they're just scared ****less because of all the noise about a possible attack, so they'll shoot anything wearing a hat or a scarf or a nappy.

And the boys back in DC are DELIGHTED. Milley nips over to the WH and says "Joe, its a mess, a ****show, and its on your watch - but we found the guy! Couldn't find him before, but we sure got him now. Absolutely sure its him. A real senior guy. Come-on Joe, show 'em who's boss and blow the sucker up. Just say the word".

And of course Joe, being an empty shirt worried about how this is all screwing with his ratings, says "Yeah Mark, do it. Do it for all the children and parents we've blown up and shot up over the years - this is their payback". Makes no sense to Milley, but hes got what he wants so hell, humour the old boy.

Joe didn't think to ask how some dude who only swapped sides from the Taliban a month ago can be a real senior guy in ISIS-K responsible for planning such an important action. I guess Joe didn't think much at all.