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Afghanistan
Afghan intelligence foil suicide attack plotted by Haqqani network in Paktika
2017-04-05
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives foiled a suicide plotted by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network for execution in southeastern Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province of Afghanistan.

The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said a suspected jacket wallah was placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
before he manage to carry out attack on the district police commandment of Jani Khel.

According a statement by NDS, the suspect has been identified as Mohammad Yasin who was trained on the otherside of the Durand Line for the attack by the Haqqani network.

The statement further added that Yasin was arrested in Sharana city, the thriving provincial capital of Paktika before he manage to carry out the attack.

According to NDS, Yasin was appointed for the attack by a commander of the Haqqani network identified as Kasu who is based on the other side of the Durand Line.

Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by 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...
. The group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.

The US Department of State designated the HQN as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012.

This come as local officials in Paktika said at least twenty nine Death Eaters of the Taliban group including two big shots of the group were killed in a US dronezap in the same district last month.

Posted by:Fred

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