Haqqani Insurgent Group Proves Resilient Foe In Afghan War -- Washington TimesKHOST, Afghanistan — The United States knows where to find the most feared insurgent family in the Afghanistan war.
Troops can point to the downtown Khost mansion owned by its patriarch, Jalaluddin Haqqani; the million-dollar blue-tile mosque he built for the city’s residents; and his base of operations 20 miles away in Pakistan. They are aware of his trucking and warehouse businesses, his sons who command about 3,000 fighters, and their sophisticated training camps that conduct courses in withstanding interrogation and firing rockets across borders.
Defeating the Haqqanis is another matter.
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My Comment: What makes this network formidable are their safe sanctuaries in Pakistan, and protection from Pakistan's intelligence agencies. Take this away from them, and they become just another rag-tag group of insurgents .... unfortunately for us and for Afghanistan .... Pakistan has zero interest to change the dynamics in this battlefield.
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