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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Rages Over U.S. Decision on Terrorist Group |
| 2012-09-09 |
| Washington has formally branded the Haqqani network a foreign terrorist organization for its attacks against American and NATO forces and for its role in the Taliban superstructure in Afghanistan. The Taliban’s response? Angry, swift and deadly. The U.S. decision on the Haqqani group was announced Friday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and it was seconded by the Defense Department. The Taliban responded with a suicide attack on Saturday that killed at least eight Afghan civilians near NATO headquarters in central Kabul. The Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the target had been a C.I.A. safe house and claimed that “five top-level U.S. agents” had been killed. He also rejected a statement by the police in Kabul that the bomber, wearing a suicide vest, had been a young boy. “There is absolutely no truth in what the Kabul slave administration says about this effective operation by a teenage martyr attacker as he was about 28 year old,” Mr. Mujahid said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Looks like OWG SkyNet-Matrix striketh again -"Pakistan" as above should be TALIBAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-09-09 22:32 |
| #2 NOT-RAGING-BULL-THE-MOVIE ... versus * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN LAUGH OFF US BLACKLISTING OF HAQQANI NETWORK, arguing that no such separate or unique entity exists in the Taliban Alliance, i.e. IIUC "there is only the Taliban, + no such thingy as Haqqanis"?; + that the Taliban = "Haqqanis" are absolutely positively categorically undeniably ...@etc. loyal to Mullah Omar. They also interprete the new US Blacklist as evidence of the US Defeat in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-09-09 22:30 |
| #1 Almost hilarious |
| Posted by: Large Darling of the Antelope3345 2012-09-09 19:49 |