Thread by @KyleWOrton

#Pakistan's claim to be a victim of terrorism rests on groups like #TTP ("Pakistani Taliban"), but it was the Army/ISI who created the jihadist emirate in North Waziristan where this group was formed, with the active and ongoing assistance of the ISI's loyal Haqqani Network.

#pt: "The Foutainhead of Jihad", pp. 164-5.

The #Haqqani-run enclave in North Waziristan, operating with the full backing of #Pakistan's ISI, not only nurtured the #TTP the Pakistanis would later portray as a mortal foe, it of course supported the "Afghan" #Taliban and was where #Al_Qaeda organised many post-9/11 plots.

In 2009, the #Haqqanis - again, under the complete control of #Pakistan's ISI - were central to the formation of an umbrella group that included the "Afghan" and "Pakistani" #Taliban (TTP), with a mission statement to avoid trouble in Pakistan and focus on #Afghanistan.

The founder of the "Pakistani Taliban" (#TTP) Baitullah Mehsud was close to the #Haqqani Network, a wing of #Pakistan's ISI, and Mehsud/TTP remained entangled with the Haqqanis even after TTP supposedly declared war on the Pakistani state.

The man who carried out the Camp Chapman attack in 2009 was tied in with Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani Network, and the "Pakistani Taliban" (TTP), as the jihadist media output in the aftermath showed. Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency had been key in orchestrating the operation.

The #Haqqani Network is perhaps the central node for the web of jihadists controlled by #Pakistan's ISI, very much including the #Taliban, helping it succeed last time and this. The Haqqanis' history is also inextricably intertwined with #Al_Qaeda | kyleorton.co.uk/2021/09/07/pak…

The #Haqqani part of #Pakistan's jihadist network was entwined with #Al_Qaeda from the outset, and explicitly globalist; its first magazine in 1988 was literally called, "The Voice of Global Jihad", kept engaged with Bin Laden even in Sudan.

["Fountainhead of Jihad", pp. 89-92]

As Rassler and Brown point out in "Fountainhead of Jihad" (p. 12), theoretically it is a liability for the #Haqqani Network (and #Pakistan) for the Haqqanis to be so tightly bound into #Al_Qaeda, and yet they won't give it up, which can only mean it's an ideological commitment.