1. This is significant: A few days ago, Tajik officials confirmed that an attack on a border post in Tajikistan which killed 17 people was carried out by ISIS. Today, ISIS released a video of the assailants. They pledge allegiance not to Baghdadi but to the new caliph: 
2. The ritual of pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “emir of the believers” has in a matter of weeks been replaced by a ritual of pledging to Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi:
3. My Tajik friend @tsarinasha has watched the video and confirms that the masked men are speaking with Tajik accents.
4. It’s just over a year ago in July 2018 that ISIS claimed its first attack in Tajikistan, led by a Tajik man who fought for ISIS in Syria and then returned his native country to kill non-believers. His victims included this beautiful American couple: nytimes.com/2018/08/07/wor…
