January 8, 2018 | Quoted by Ann Simmons - The Los Angeles Times

Many Americans have never heard of the Haqqani network, one of the world’s most lethal terror groups

Bill Roggio

Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal

When the Trump administration announced this week it was suspending military aid to Pakistan until the country takes more aggressive action against terrorist organizations that have targeted Americans, one of the groups it named was the Haqqani network.

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And Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of its Long War Journal, said it was “a complete misnomer to de-link the Haqqani network from the Taliban.”

“It’s like saying the Marines aren’t part of the U.S. military,” he said. “They’re a faction. They’re a branch of the Taliban … but they are the Taliban.”

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Pakistan