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| Siraj Haqqani moved to 'secure safe house' outside FATA |
| 2010-11-20 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Daily Times can confirm that Siraj Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqani Network, who had earlier been moved from Miranshah, North Wazoo to Kurram Agency, home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, has been moved to a secure "safe house" outside FATA. The decision was taken after the September 27 NATO incursion near the village of Mata Sanger, which left two Pak FC guards dead. "Apparently, Siraj Haqqani was pretty close at a safe-house when the NATO incursion at Kurram took place," confirmed a top Western diplomat. It should be noted that Siraj Haqqani was earlier moved to Kurram Agency from Miranshah in North Wazoo after his brother, Mohammed, was killed in a US predator strike and another military commander, Saifullah Haqqani, was killed earlier this year. The Haqqani network, which is considered as a 'strategic asset' by the Pak security establishment due to their considerable influence in Afghanistan, had first been moved to Kurram Agency where a new operation centre had been set up to intensify attacks in Afghanistan in co-ordination with a break away section of the Lakhkar-e-Taiba and other groups. It is now reported that the Shia tribes that make up most of the base for the Frontier Corps, who had earlier given most of the resistance to Gubuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami in Spina Shaga, have turned against the Haqqani network, who they see as an ideological threat to their existence. While most of the Pak mainstream media reported the recent festivities in Kurram Agency as 'water wars' between various tribal groups where more than 70 Islamic fascisti had been killed in strikes, it was in reality a section of the security establishment's supporting pro-government tribal killings to pave a way for the Haqqanis. Daily Times can now confirm that it was a story to cover and allow the military to intervene on behalf of the Haqqanis, who are viewed as 'strategic assets' and 'good Talibans'. As a result, the Haqqanis play the 'mediating role' and 'big brother' of Kurram Agency, where at least two of the junior Haqqani, Khalil and Ibrahim Haqqani, were in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and Islamabad to negotiate a peace deal in Kurram. It should be noted that previously in 2006, the banned sectarian organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba took control of a mosque in Parachinar and killed hundreds of Turis, while LeJ and LeT are present and use Kurram Agency due to the area's strategic value as it borders Paktia, Nangarhar and Khost provinces of Afghanistan and is considered ideal for launching offensives into Afghanistan. While the Bangash and Turis had been fighting against the TTP, LeJ, LeT, Haqqani supported groups in Kurram Agency, the Turis remain cut off, as the Taliban continue to attack along the single road that connects the remote area to the rest of Pakistain. The Turis have not received support from the Pak military for obvious reasons. US and Afghan forces tried to hit the Haqqani network in the summer of 2009 during a series of raids in Khost, Paktia, Pashtun-infested Logar, Zabul and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces in Afghanistan, but failed to dislodge it. It is to be noted that the Haqqani network took credit of kidnapping a US solider during combat from his post in Paktika on June 30, 2009 and has carried many suicide missions against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The ongoing negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban fell off because of the Haqqani network, whom the Americans considered to be a faction of al Qaeda. Most of the members of the Haqqani network have been added to the list of US Treasury's specially-designated global hard boyz for financing terrorism and the CIA has tried to inflict maximum damage to the network via dronezaps in North Wazoo. It should be noted that there was an offer to the Haqqani network in 2001 to help the US in fighting against the Taliban and even head Afghanistan's new government, which was refused. The network today remains, after al Qaeda, the biggest threat to NATO and ISAF. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Paul D, do you really expect Zero to take action against HIS allies? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-11-20 14:31 |
| #4 The Turis need our support asap! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-11-20 07:01 |
| #3 The pakis are becoming more brazen and less shy that they are the true enemy and still Obama does nothing against them! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-11-20 07:00 |
| #2 ISI needs to be targeted! |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2010-11-20 03:14 |
| #1 "to a place with better security and commo setup.... whoops" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-20 01:10 |