Haqqani Network (merged thread)
Gentlemen (and Ladies):
I am looking for some information on the Haqqani Network (open source) in regards to organizational structure, operational cells and history. Most of what I have been able to find has been cursory at best.
Thanks in advance for any references.
After Bin Laden: Confronting the Haqqani Network in Kurram
After Bin Laden: Confronting the Haqqani Network in Kurram
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After Bin Laden: Confronting the Haqqani Network in Kurram
by Reza Jan
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Information gleaned after the killing of Osama bin Laden seems to indicate that bin Laden was much more centrally involved in running al Qaeda. Even so, his death is not a decisive blow to the network and it would be wrong to hail it as such. In fact, al Qaeda’s enduring links to other militant Islamist groups in the region and the expansion of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network’s operational territory inside Pakistan serve to broaden the group’s room to maneuver and increase its survivability.
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Reza Nasim Jan is the Pakistan Team Lead at the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project and a co-author of the new report The Haqqani Network in Kurram: The Regional Implications of a Growing Insurgency
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Money & Recruiting: two reports
Hat tip to Circling The Lion's Den for the pointers to two studies, the first on ' Haqqani Network Financing: The Evolution of an Industry' for CTC @ West Point by Gretchen Peters:
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Her groundbreaking study shows in some detail how this remarkable Afghan clan has been able to build up unique cash-generating business enterprises to finance its very effective campaign against the Karzai government and its Western allies. From its base in Pakistan's North Waziristan - where it exists with the blessing of the ISI - the Haqqanis have created a mafia-like empire that now stretches across Pakistan and into the Gulf.
Link to report:http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/u...ort__Final.pdf
Secondly, from a rather unusual angle IMO:
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The European Asylum Support Office has published a report on Afghanistan aimed at providing information to support government officials who assess asylum applications from Afghan nationals....gives an overview of Taliban strategy for the recruitment of fighters......Many interesting little nuggets in this report which also contains a very detailed bibliography.
Link to report:http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/...ecruitment.pdf
Link to Circling The Lion's Den:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, Strategy and the Haqqani Network
DOD Welcomes Designation of Haqqani Network as a Terrorist Group
A Haqqani Network leader reported killed
A report by Bill Roggio, based on a Pakistani newspaper story:
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An al Qaeda military commander and a Haqqani Network leader are among 17 jihadists who are reported to have been killed in a US drone strike that took place earlier this week.
Link:http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...ilitary_co.php
Note the Haqqani group appears in many threads and one point of reference, originally a RFI, has been moved to this area. It may contain points of reference:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=10387
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead, say Taliban sources
It must be the week to say leaders are dead:
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Chief of the Haqqani militant network and father of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Jaluluddin Haqqani, died almost a year ago of natural causes and was buried in Afghan province of Khost, according to reliable sources among the Afghan Taliban.While news of Jalaluddin Haqqani's death had been making rounds for almost a month now, multiple credible sources in Taliban confirmed today that he had died of illness almost a year ago.
The militant group has not officially given out a statement over Haqqani's demise yet.
Sources, however, say Sirajudin Haqqani, Jalaluddin's son, has been running the militant network for over a year now, ever since his father's illness.
Link:http://www.dawn.com/news/1197598/jal...aliban-sources
The Haqqani group was (is) noted as a very capable insurgent group and were loyal to Mullah Omar. Their name appears on many threads and there is an old (2011) RFI thread on them:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=10387
What Is the Haqqani Network?
The Haqqani Network: International Friends, Local Enemies