#AFGHANISTAN: Al Qaeda grows its footprint. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/07/analysis-al-qaeda-expands-its-network-of-training-camps-in-afghanistan.php
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#AFGHANISTAN: Al Qaeda grows its footprint. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/07/analysis-al-qaeda-expands-its-network-of-training-camps-in-afghanistan.php
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | Afghanistan, Pakistan, a fragile part of planet Earth, and I welcome my two colleagues |
| 0:20.0 | and very good correspondence, Bill Rajo of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's |
| 0:25.2 | Long War Journal and Ambassador Hasena County, former Ambassador from Pakistan to the United States |
| 0:31.0 | now at the Hudson Institute to comment on the activity of the |
| 0:34.7 | jihadists in and around this region and some success. Bill, a very good evening to you, there is a new report from the United Nations analytical |
| 0:45.2 | support and sanctions monitoring team which is a long way of saying they were |
| 0:49.0 | looking very closely at Afghanistan. Over the last months we've discussed a previous report in which you identified, I believe, 10 training |
| 0:59.0 | facilities by al-Qaeda. |
| 1:00.6 | You'll correct me if I get the numbers wrong. |
| 1:02.9 | In Afghanistan, there's addition. |
| 1:05.2 | So I'm keen on your thinking about these additions, where they are, and what this means about |
| 1:10.4 | the Al Qaeda relationship with Taliban. |
| 1:12.8 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, the United Nations analytical support and sanctions monitoring team tracks both what's going on in Afghanistan. This is based on the United Nations |
| 1:26.0 | Security Council decree and then they in a separate report they take a wider |
| 1:30.1 | look at al-Qaeda and the Islamic State worldwide. So this latest report covered |
| 1:35.3 | Afghanistan. Yes, and you were correct, John, it was 10 camps as of January of |
| 1:41.2 | this year when the last report came out. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm sorry, |
| 1:45.1 | camps and 10 provinces, so there can be more training camps. |
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