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Senior Fellow, Editor, Terrorism Analyst "Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace." - J.C.Ryle

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  1. 14 hours ago

    Definitely not. It is cheap looking 5.11 like knockoff ball caps. Now if they had Ibn Khattab’s hat… then I’m in!

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Badran 313 Brigade, the Taliban’s special forces unit that is trained by the Haqqanis, now has its own merch.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Amen, The war in Afghanistan is over but military leaders are still trying to hide their failures

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  4. 17 hours ago

    This statement from the Taliban is in regards to U.S. & UN sanctions on Haqqani family members and other Taliban leaders. The Taliban wants these sanctions removed.

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  5. 17 hours ago

    Zabihullah's statement on this is linked at this tweet:

    Latest US position regarding blacklist is a violation of Doha Agreement
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  6. 17 hours ago

    For Ned Price. This is from Taliban spokesman : "The family of honorable Haqqani Sahib is part of Islamic Emirate and does not have a separate name or organizational setup."

    1) Ned Price is flat out wrong when he claimed the "Taliban and Haqqani Network are separate entities." Both the Taliban and the Haqqanis deny this. See this report from 2017. Details follow.
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  7. 21 hours ago

    If you only read one thing today, read this. I have said for years that our generals need to be generals and fight and win wars... With thanks to for bringing it to my attention.

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  8. Sep 9

    When the prime policy objective for Afghanistan for 3 successive presidents is to leave, the bureaucracy gets the message & crafts their messages to support leaving. This is how you get silly narratives like Al Qaeda is "gone," "decimated," "degraded," defeated" & "diminished."

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  9. Sep 9

    In 2011, I wrote an article titled "Al Qaeda never left Kunar, and other problems with US intel". The same problems exist. This is is one of the many, many reasons why the U.S. lost Afghanistan.

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  10. Sep 9

    Look no further than Sirajuddin Haqqani, the new Interior Minister, which is arguably the most powerful position in the Taliban government. His ties to A Qaeda run deep. The UN called him an "Al Qaeda leader." He isn't the only one, just the easiest one to spot.

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  11. Sep 9

    Look at the list of the "new" Taliban leadership. It is the old crew. Many have deep, longstanding ties to Al Qaeda. This relationship, which was re-forged in 20 years of war against the U.S., is stronger than ever.

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  12. Sep 9

    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Al Qaeda "may attempt to regenerate" in Afghanistan. For 11 years, senior US officials have made a version this absurd claim. Al Qaeda never left, and remains embedded with the Taliban.

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  13. Sep 9

    "... according to Charlene and Chris, Sinclair told them that she was with Khalilzad when he signed the settlement with the Taliban and that they were unaware that Frerichs was being held hostage at the time."

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  14. Sep 9

    Two successive administrations - Trump & Biden - led by one of the premier Taliban apologists, Zalmay Khalilzad , were so committed to leaving Afghanistan and groveling to the Taliban, that they willingly abandoned Mark Frerichs.

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  15. Sep 8

    The U.S. failed to cull the Taliban's leadership cadre, and with the help of the Pakistani state, the Taliban's core leaders organized and executed their patient insurgency to outlast the U.S. and NATO. With Pakistan as a safe haven, the Taliban thrived.

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  16. Sep 8

    The failure of the U.S. military/intelligence/government in combatting the Taliban is on display with the Taliban's "new" old leadership team. By early 2002, the Taliban may have been driven off the battlefield, but never really defeated. Its leaders fled to Pakistan & regrouped.

    - & I profile 22 members of the Taliban's new government. All are Taliban veterans, many from the Taliban's regime from 1996-2001; 4 are former Guantanamo detainees; most are sanctioned by the UN & US. The Taliban's veteran leadership team was ready to take over.
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  17. Sep 8

    Read 's thread on the new Taliban leaders.

    1. The Taliban's list of leaders reveals a key U.S. failure. Many of the Taliban's new leaders are actually veterans who served in the Taliban's regime prior to 9/11. Others have been senior figures for much of the two decades since. They were simply waiting to take over again.
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  18. Sep 8

    Note on the Guantanamo detainees: 4 of them profiled are ministers in the government, one is a provincial governor.

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  19. Sep 8

    - & I profile 22 members of the Taliban's new government. All are Taliban veterans, many from the Taliban's regime from 1996-2001; 4 are former Guantanamo detainees; most are sanctioned by the UN & US. The Taliban's veteran leadership team was ready to take over.

    Taliban's government includes designated terrorists, ex-Guantanamo detainees -
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  20. Sep 8

    Sirajuddin Haqqani issues his first decree as interior minister. Protesters beware.

    The Ministry of Interior in a statement issued on Wednesday evening said that people should not protest without coordinating with the security and justice departments.
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