For groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, America has always been considered the ultimate enemy. 2. However, following Vladimir Putin's bombing campaign in Syria, Russia may have taken its place as target number one for ISIL. 3. Thousands of ISIL fighters from Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere are regrouping in the virtually impregnable mountains of Afghanistan, plotting revenge against the Kremlin. 4. Is long this manual million for our dough isil's High Command have given orders to target Russian cities Charles an apartment get they are cool ideological Turkish Angora for everybody of course money inshallah. 5. The Russian government knows they're coming and says they are ready. They're welcome were will need them appropriately. 6. But a lone terrorist on the metro in St. Petersburg demonstrates the vulnerability of any modern city, with 15 dead and many more injured. 7. Russian involvement with Afghanistan goes back a long way, but real scarring occurred in December 1979 when a hundred thousand troops rolled across the border to target claimed extremists threatening the Soviet Union and its satellite States. 8. It's been described as Russia's Vietnam, after almost a decade of war, they were driven out by a coalition of Afghan tribesmen led by the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who became known as the Lion of Panjshir. 9. Russia's withdrawal left a power vacuum in a country awash with weapons. If armed fighter groups were an issue before, they now had fertile ground allowing the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIL to take root here today. 10. Masoud's nephew, Babak, is an advisor to the Afghan National Security Council. In the 1990s, his uncle's forces became embroiled in a war with the Taliban, which allowed al-Qaeda to establish bases in the country, just as ISIL is doing...