Senior Haqqani Network Leader Killed in Pakistan

[Marauder06]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/19782088/senior-haqqani-network-commander-killed-in-islamabad/

Unidentified gunmen attacked Nasiruddin Haqqani, a son of the group's founder, on the edge of Islamabad on Sunday evening, the militants told AFP.

The Haqqanis have been blamed for spectacular attacks on Afghan government and NATO targets across Afghanistan, as well as for kidnappings and murders.

Eyewitnesses described attackers on motorbikes spraying Haqqani with automatic gunfire as he bought bread from a shop in Bhara Kahu on the northeastern edge of the city.

Happy Veterans' Day, folks.

 

[Kraut783]

A nice touch for Veterans' Day

This part will be interesting, if it's true.

"A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban confirmed the death and vowed to take revenge, accusing Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of killing him.
Nasiruddin Haqqani has been martyred by ISI," Shahidullah Shahid, the main spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told AFP."

 

[AWP]

Good. He'd dead.

But why? The ISI wouldn't off a Haqqani prince, particularly their chief fundraiser, without a good reason. If there's a split between the TTP and HQN, and I think there is, they stand to gain by blaming the ISI for this. The problem then is what happened to cause this escalation?

I wonder if this is the official start of the post-American civil war?

This makes Sarah-jewdin (yes, I know) the last surviving son, right? Don't misunderstand me, I'm glad the guy is dead, but for the locals to whack him...that's interesting.

 

[Marauder06]

I think that final billion-dollar bribe we paid Pakistan might have actually bought off the right people this time.

 

[DA SWO]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/19782088/senior-haqqani-network-commander-killed-in-islamabad/



Happy Veterans' Day, folks.

Tribal issues? The other tribes figure hitting the Haqqani's might reduce drone strikes?

 

[Marauder06]

Tribal issues? The other tribes figure hitting the Haqqani's might reduce drone strikes?

Could be, although any tribe powerful enough to take on the HQN, and their allies, the Taliban, and their allies, AQ, and their allies, the ISI, would have to be pretty powerful indeed, or have a death wish.

I see this act, and the ISI allowing the Americans to take out the Pakistan Taliban's head, as an indicator that Pakistan is cleaning house in preparation for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in the coming months. It might be a message to the Taliban, HQN and others: "Hey bitches, we're still the ISI and we're still calling the shots. Do what we tell you or end up like your boy Nasiruddin."

 

[DA SWO]

Could be, although any tribe powerful enough to take on the HQN, and their allies, the Taliban, and their allies, AQ, and their allies, the ISI, would have to be pretty powerful indeed, or have a death wish.

I see this act, and the ISI allowing the Americans to take out the Pakistan Taliban's head, as an indicator that Pakistan is cleaning house in preparation for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in the coming months. It might be a message to the Taliban, HQN and others: "Hey bitches, we're still the ISI and we're still calling the shots. Do what we tell you or end up like your boy Nasiruddin."

I hope you are correct.

 

[Brill]

RAW "sending a grocery clerk to collect on a bill".

 

[RackMaster]

I guess Christmas has come early.

 

[Brill]

I guess Christmas has come early.

Not related, but WTF is with the Christmas commercials on the tele already?????????????

 

[RackMaster]

Not related, but WTF is with the Christmas commercials on the tele already?????????????

Was at the mall today and they already have that fat fucks "workshop" set up for his annual pervy photoshoot with the kids.

 

[Viper1]

Infighting is a beautiful thing sometimes....

 

[Marauder06]

Good. He'd dead.

But why? The ISI wouldn't off a Haqqani prince, particularly their chief fundraiser, without a good reason. If there's a split between the TTP and HQN, and I think there is, they stand to gain by blaming the ISI for this. The problem then is what happened to cause this escalation?

I wonder if this is the official start of the post-American civil war?

This makes Sarah-jewdin (yes, I know) the last surviving son, right? Don't misunderstand me, I'm glad the guy is dead, but for the locals to whack him...that's interesting.

 

[Marauder06]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghanistan-block-buster-truck-bomb-biggest/story?id=20863072
"Hm, massive truck bomb coming in from Pakistan. Sounds like something the Haqqanis would do."

Afghan and U.S. sources linked the recent Hino "jingle" truck, a local variety of cargo truck, piled with TNT to the al Qaeda-aligned Haqqani network, which allegedly has been responsible for almost all major truck bombings in Kabul and in Afghanistan's eastern tribal areas near Pakistan, from which the insurgents originate. A likely target was the U.S. military's Forward Operating Base Goode near Gardez City, the sources told ABC News.