Business Insider: The Toyota Hilux is strangely popular with terrorists -- here's why

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US officials have recently asked Toyota to figure out why its vehicles are showing up in so many ISIS videos, according to ABC News. 

Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the US, told ABC that in recent years, as ISIS has risen to prominence in Iraq and Syria, the terror group has acquired hundreds of new Toyota pickup trucks. “This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbours,” Faily told ABC. “How could these brand new trucks… these four wheel drives, hundreds of them — where are they coming from?”

 

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October 11, 2015
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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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