Afghanistan’s Conflict Minerals: The Crime-State-Insurgent Nexus
...groups such as the Taliban, the Haqqani network, and their Pakistani counterparts—in the period before and during Afghanistan’s contemporary conflict. Understanding this connection is important since state, criminal...
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Afghanistan’s Future Emirate? The Taliban and the Struggle for Afghanistan
...for protection and training.”89 Contacts between al-Qa`ida and the Haqqani Network—including the Taliban’s deputy leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani—remain particularly close. They share long-standing personal relationships, intermarriage, a shared history...
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Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
...senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan. He is also the uncle of Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani. – BBC, October 1 October 1, 2011 (KENYA): Six...
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Are the Afghan Taliban Involved in International Terrorism?
...attack was commended by Jalaluddin Haqqani himself, illustrating the direct link between the foreign militants and the local group.[25] It appears that if the Haqqani network wanted to...
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Self Inflicted Wounds
Self‐Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al‐Qa’ida and its Periphery examines the internal, or endogenous, reasons that have hastened the decline of the jihadi movement. In doing so,...
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The Facade of Allegiance
...forged a close friendship with Jalaluddin Haqqani and worked as a propagandist and military strategist for what would come to be known as the Haqqani network—helping to edit...
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Twenty Years After 9/11: The Terror Threat from Afghanistan Post the Taliban Takeover
...of regional and transnational jihadis. Senior Taliban leaders, such as Sirajuddin Haqqani and Ibrahim Sadr, remain sympathetic to groups of foreign fighters, including al-Qa`ida.122 The Taliban have appointed...
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After Action Report
...of Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal areas to the Afghan cities of Khost and Ghazni. The Zadran claim, as one of their own, the pro-Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani. After six...
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