Sean Naylor at the Army Times has an interesting piece about the insurgents and our forces arrayed to fight and defeat them - the original title was "The Deadliest Insurgents": JSOC task force battles Haqqani militantsBy Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 13, 2010 10:03:23 EDT Boosted by a shift of forces from Iraq and a flood of new intelligence, the most secretive U.S. special operations task force in Afghanistan is taking aim at that country’s deadliest insurgent network, say several senior military officials. The task force, part of the Joint Special Operations Command, based at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., has made its priority the disruption and dismantlement of the Haqqani network, a Pashtun insurgent group active in eastern Afghanistan led by Jalaluddin Haqqani — who rose to prominence as a mujahedeen commander during the 1980s — and his sons. The network has been linked to a series of high-profile attacks on military and civilian targets, including the January 2008 attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul that killed seven guests... More at the Army Times.
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