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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