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EDITORIAL: Another Haqqani rubbed out
 [Pak Daily Times] The liquidation of the eldest son, Nasiruddin Haqqani, of the Haqqani Network (HN) leader Jalaluddin Haqqani in Bhara Kahu on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday night comes barely a week after Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leader Hakeemullah Mehsud's death in a drone strike in North Wazoo. He is reported to be the fourth Haqqani brother to have been rubbed out by one means or the other. Two gunnies opened fire on Nasiruddin, the chief financier and front man of the HN, as he was buying bread in the bazaar, stopped to make sure he was dead and then fled. Nasiruddin's driver picked up the body and transported it to the Haqqani home near Miranshah... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , North Waziristan, where he is reported to have been buried. No claim of responsibility has surfaced so far, feeding the rumour mills fulltime. The TTP was quick to react, blaming the ISI for the liquidation because they said, of Nasiruddin's close support to Hakeemullah Mehsud. They also vowed to avenge his death. Other speculation centres on the usual cast of suspects, headed first and foremost by the US, which had declared the HN a terrorist group in 2012, in an ironic twist on the HN's once blue-eyed boys status in the eyes of Washington during the anti-Soviet struggle in Afghanistan. Former US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen had categorised the HN in 2011 in testimony before Congress as a "veritable arm" of the Pak ISI. HN is considered one of the most deadly groups fighting the US, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and the Karzai Afghan government, with links to al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and a string of bad turban groups in Pakistain, including the TTP. The Pakistain army's ISPR refused to comment on the liquidation. The local police appeared clueless about whether the murder had actually occurred, and if it had, who was the victim, since the body was whisked away long before the police lumbered onto the scene. The local SHO has been suspended, but what good does that do when the incident is clearly a 'black ops' targeting by whoever was responsible. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-13 |
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