Tuesday, February 15, 2011

With Friends Like These...

An excerpt from The Long War Journal that I shamelessly repost here without permision.

Suicide bomber targets hotel in Kabul
By Bill Roggio February 14, 2011

Read more:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/

"...Background on the Kabul Attack Network

Today's suicide attack was likely carried out by the Kabul Attack
Network, which is made up of fighters from the Taliban, the Haqqani
Network, and Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, and cooperates with terror groups
such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and al Qaeda. Top Afghan intelligence
officials have linked the Kabul Attack Network to Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence directorate as well.
The network's tentacles
extend outward from Kabul into the surrounding provinces of Logar,
Wardak, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Ghazni, and Zabul, a US intelligence official
recently told The Long War Journal...."

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