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PREVIEW: Speaking with Jerry Dunleavy about the connections between the Taliban and the Haqqani family network -- an arrangement that also links the Haqqanis to both Al Qaeda and ISIS. All of these details start to explain the attack on the withdrawal t

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: Speaking with Jerry Dunleavy about the connections between the Taliban and the Haqqani family network -- an arrangement that also links the Haqqanis to both Al Qaeda and ISIS. All of these details start to explain the attack on the withdrawal that kiled thirteen Marines and untold dozens of Afghans.


Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

1841 Afghanistan

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This is John Batchelf. A much longer conversation with the authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hassan, their book

0:34.5

Cabell, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American warriors who fought to

0:38.8

the end, about the evacuation in August of 2021 from Kabul in the little bitty airport in the center

0:46.6

of Kabul.

0:48.7

And here in Jerry Dunleavy describes the relationship between the Taliban. the a creation of the Hakani family over many years, working with the

1:04.9

Pakistan-ISI, working with al-Qaeda, working with ISIS eventually, and all of

1:10.9

those poisonous pools came together to create the conditions for the suicide bomber

1:19.1

who murdered the Marines guarding the airport right at the very end. This is Jerry Dunleavy describing

1:26.8

the Hakani network in Cabo, it's still there, it's very powerful, and there as of yet no response from the Biden administration to

1:37.8

what happened that day in Cabell. Is Jerry Dunleavy?

1:42.0

So a great question.

1:44.0

So I am an investigator on the House Foreign Affairs Committee looking into the Afghanistan

1:48.7

withdrawal.

1:49.7

I'll just note that I'm just here as the author, the co-author of this book, but the relationship that the

1:55.0

can't the co-author of this book, but the relationship that the Hachani network had with all these groups is very important.

2:00.0

So the Hachaniis are a key force inside the Taliban.

2:08.3

They also have a longstanding relationship

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