Well, such skills might be useful if they wanted to monitor the goings on at diplomatic missions in Afghanistan even, and it looks to have been a very busy place, with Iranian-supported, US-supported and Russian-supported groups mixing it up with the pro-Taliban Pakistanis and Chechens, among others.
Again, the connection with overseas operations would appear to be very weakly supported by any evidence, as you might expect. They might at least offer another overdubbed home video to fake their case or something.
Also, on these terms, our own CIA are terrorists (or counter-terrorists acting like terrorists), but on at least one day last year someone else's guys proved superior.
Charles Jannuzi