Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

In the Penly on unbrooding Galia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what

they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estre colleagues, the Saina County of the Hudson Institute and Bill

Rajo of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies.

The story is about a man named Serajidin-Hakani, one of the Hakani Clan, and the story is

Sir Judin Hakani power in Afghanistan and hands of religious

scholars. Bill remind everyone what is the Hakani clan what do they mean

for Afghanistan? Yes John the Hakani clan the

Hicani clan are often referred to as the hacani network.

This is a powerful Taliban subgroup.

Tirjutin hicani himself is not only the Interior Minister for

Afghanistan, one of the two most of powerful positions next to the defense

minister, but he's also one of two deputy amirs for the Taliban. The Hakani clan is responsible for bringing Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan.

It helped the Taliban reignite its insurgency.

It has a foothold, a stronghold really in North Waziristan

in Pakistan, where it helped direct the insurgency

as well as sheltered numerous al-Qaeda leaders, the drone strikes in Pakistan from 2005 up until 2017.

I would estimate more than half of those strikes were conducted against safe houses that

housed top al-Qaeda leaders and operatives as well as members of the Afghan

Taliban and other terrorist groups. But the Hicani's, they're listed as a foreign terrorist organization,

the group itself.

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