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| Influential Taliban commander pledges to new emir |
| 2016-08-24 |
| [LONGWARJOURNAL.ORG] Anwar ul Haq Mujahid, the commander of the Tora Bora Military Front and son of an influential Taliban leader who was instrumental in welcoming the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... to Afghanistan after al Qaeda was ejected from Sudan in 1996, has sworn allegiance to the Taliban’s new emir. Anwar ul Haq’s pledge was announced on Aug. 21 by Zabihullah Mujahid, an official front man of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ‐ the official name of the Taliban. "Son of Khalis Baba (RA), respected Mawlawi Anwarul Haq Mujahid declares allegiance to Amir ul Mumineen," the Taliban front man wrote on his official Twitter feed. "Khalis Baba" is a reference to Maulvi Mohammed Yunis Khalis, Anwar ul Haq’s father, who led a faction of Hizb-e-Islami before his death in 2006. Khalis was close to Jalaluddin Haqqani ...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit... , allied with al Qaeda, and advocated jihad outside of Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 In the nineteen eighties Pakistan General Zia ul-Haq was directly responsible for arming the Hizb-e-Islami of the Afghanistan commander Yunis Khalis and its brother organization in Pakistan the Harakat al-Jihadi Islami (HUJI). Both were active in the management and recruitment of Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. (A decade later the HUJI formed in Bangladesh under Shaukat Usman (AKA Sheikh Farid). By 2005 the Islamist HUJI operated in 24 countries and was especially active in Kashmir, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, northeast Bangladesh, and Arakan state, Myanmar. Since then, both the Hizb and the Harakat have been the playthings of the Pak military. |
| Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 2016-08-24 08:57 |