Siraj Haqqani appears, threatens more attacks

Al Jazeera landed an interview with Siraj Haqqani, the son of famed mujahedeen leader Jalaluddin, the military commander of the Haqqani Network, and a member of al Qaeda’s military shura. The interview is short (see video above). Here is what Siraj had to say:

Thank god the mujahideen are getting more advanced, the war is now being dictated by them. I can guarantee you in the future their fighting will be even better. In the beginning of this war the coordination between our fighters was useless. Now there are so many attacks even that we cannot count them ourselves. But it is still not enough. The future will show what I mean.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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