Haqqani Network Poses a Low Threat to the United States

The Haqqani Network under its founder Jalaluddin Haqqani was historically unconcerned with global jihadism, confining its operations to Afghanistan. Now under Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Network has well-established globalized organizational and operational ties. Notwithstanding its multiple external capabilities, the Haqqani Network lacks the motivation to attack the US, its DIME interests, and its allies as it has nothing to gain but everything to lose from it.

The Haqqani Network under Sirajuddin Haqqani has published a global jihadist manifesto that betrays the international scope of its intent. Truly, its sophisticated international capabilities ranging from financing operations to terrorist linkages enable the Network to possibly conduct or facilitate mass-casualty attacks in the US and allied states. Considering the post-withdrawal downgraded US counterterrorism capacities, if the Haqqani Network targets the US and its allies, the damage would be large-scale.

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