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Sunday 9 September 2012

AS menetapkan Haqqani Network sebagai Kelompok Teroris


(Vladivostok, Rusia) - Pemerintahan Obama telah resmi ditunjuk jaringan Haqqani yang berbasis di Pakistan sebagai organisasi teroris asing, pejabat AS mengatakan Jumat, dalam sebuah keputusan politik yang rumit karena menarik diri dari Afghanistan dan AS mendorong untuk sebuah pakta rekonsiliasi untuk mengakhiri lebih dari satu dekade perang.

Menteri Luar Negeri Hillary Rodham Clinton menandatangani laporan kepada Kongres pada Jumat pagi sebelum meninggalkan Brunei untuk pertemuan regional di Rusia. Laporan itu menyatakan bahwa Pakistan berbasis jaringan Haqqani "memenuhi kriteria hukum untuk penunjukan sebagai organisasi teroris asing," kata seorang pejabat AS, yang berbicara dengan syarat anonim karena pemberitahuan kongres masih berlangsung.

Marah oleh serangkaian profil tinggi serangan terhadap pasukan AS dan NATO, Kongres memberi Clinton batas waktu hari Minggu untuk menyampaikan laporan pada apakah Haqqani harus ditunjuk dan semua anggotanya dikenakan sanksi keuangan AS. Keputusan Clinton muncul di tengah perbedaan pendapat banyak dalam pemerintahan tentang kegunaan penunjukan.

(LEBIH: Afghan: Sumber Konfirmasi Badruddin Haqqani is Dead)

AS sudah telah menempatkan sanksi terhadap pemimpin Haqqani banyak dan menargetkan anggotanya militer tetapi telah menahan diri secara resmi menunjuk jaringan al-Qaeda sebagai kelompok teroris di tengah kekhawatiran tentang menghambat upaya perdamaian di Afghanistan dan hubungan AS dengan Pakistan.

Panjang AS telah dicap Haqqani di antara ancaman terbesar bagi pasukan Amerika dan sekutu di Afghanistan, dan stabilitas jangka panjang Afghanistan. Sebuah anak perusahaan dari Taliban, yang berbasis di Pakistan utara, tetapi melintasi perbatasan untuk melancarkan serangan, termasuk serangan granat roket di Kedubes AS dan NATO di Kabul senyawa pada bulan September.

Tetapi peran kelompok semakin menonjol dalam pemberontakan dan link dekat dengan dinas intelijen Pakistan memperumit masalah.

Pemerintahan Obama telah berusaha untuk membujuk kelompok Afghanistan berjuang dalam pembicaraan damai, menawarkan prospek sebuah kantor yang berbasis di Qatar politik bagi gerilyawan dan bahkan transfer tahanan beberapa ditahan di pangkalan angkatan laut AS di Teluk Guantanamo, Kuba. Negosiasi telah aktif selama berbulan-bulan, dan Haqqani telah di antara yang paling tertarik dalam berbicara.

Seorang pejabat senior intelijen Pakistan mengatakan keputusan pemerintahan Obama bisa menyakiti hubungan AS-Pakistan dan berdampak negatif terhadap proses perdamaian yang sedang berlangsung dengan Taliban. Pejabat itu berbicara dengan syarat anonim karena sensitivitas isu tersebut.

(LEBIH: Melawan Bayangan: Mengapa AS Akan Perjuangan untuk Mengalahkan Jaringan Haqqani di Afghanistan)

Kelompok ini juga telah menikmati hubungan dekat dengan Pakistan. AS dan sekutu kontraterorisme sering enggan yang telah berselisih selama Haqqani selama bertahun-tahun, dengan menuduh Washington Islamabad memberikan jaringan tangan bebas di wilayah Waziristan Utara dan terpencil bahkan menyediakan dengan beberapa dukungan logistik.



U.S. Designates Haqqani Network as Terrorist Group

(VLADIVOSTOK, Russia) — The Obama administration has formally designated the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. officials said Friday, in a complicated political decision as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan and pushes for a reconciliation pact to end more than a decade of warfare.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a report to Congress on Friday morning just before leaving Brunei for regional meetings in Russia. The report states that the Pakistan-based Haqqani network “meets the statutory criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization,” said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because congressional notifications were still going on.

Enraged by a string of high-profile attacks on U.S. and NATO troops, Congress gave Clinton a Sunday deadline to deliver a report on whether the Haqqanis should be designated and all of its members subjected to U.S. financial sanctions. Clinton’s decision comes amid numerous disagreements within the administration about the utility of the designation.

(MORE: Afghans: Sources Confirm Badruddin Haqqani is Dead)

The U.S. already has placed sanctions on many Haqqani leaders and is targeting its members militarily but it had held back from formally designating the al-Qaeda-linked network a terrorist group amid concerns about hampering peace efforts in Afghanistan and U.S. relations with Pakistan.

The U.S. long has branded the Haqqanis among the biggest threats to American and allied forces in Afghanistan, and to Afghanistan’s long-term stability. A subsidiary of the Taliban, it is based in northern Pakistan but crosses the border to launch attacks, including a rocket-propelled grenade assault on the U.S. Embassy and NATO compound in Kabul in September.

But the group’s increasingly prominent role in the insurgency and its close links to Pakistan’s intelligence service complicate matters.

The Obama administration has been trying to coax Afghanistan’s fighting groups into peace talks, offering the prospect of a Qatar-based political office for insurgents and even the transfer of several prisoners being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Negotiations have been dormant for months, and the Haqqanis have been among the least interested in talking.

A senior Pakistani intelligence official said the Obama administration’s decision could hurt U.S.-Pakistan relations and negatively impact the ongoing peace process with the Taliban. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

(MORE: Fighting Shadows: Why the U.S. Will Struggle to Defeat the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan)

The group also has enjoyed a close relationship with Pakistan. The U.S. and its often reluctant counterterrorism ally have been at loggerheads over the Haqqanis for years, with Washington accusing Islamabad of giving the network a free hand in the remote North Waziristan region and even providing it with some logistical support.

http://world.time.com/2012/09/07/u-s-designates-haqqani-network-as-terrorist-group/?iid=gs-article-mostpop1

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