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Afghanistan
Haqqani Network to Support Afghanistan Peace Process
2011-09-19
Kind of. By the time they get done defining it, it's like the Palestinians negotiating peace with Israel: surrender totally and we'll agree to your terms.
[Tolo News] The Haqqani network, one of the most notorious terrorist group in Afghanistan, will participate in peace negotiations with the Afghan government and the US if the Taliban want it to, Sirajuddin Haqqani, the network's leader told Rooters news agency on Saturday.

Haqqani said the group had in the past rejected a number of peace overtures because it felt that the US and the Afghan government were attempting to divide various myrmidon factions.

The network no longer has sanctuaries in Pakistain because members feel secure inside Afghanistan, Haqqani said.

The US blamed the network for Tuesday's rocket attacks on the American Embassy in Kabul.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
 on Thursday said the existence of Haqqani safe havens in Pakistain is unacceptable and vowed he will not let these attacks in Afghanistan continue.
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