http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/us-seems-set-to-designate-haqqani-network-as-terror-group.html


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From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Subject: re: U.S. Seems Set to Designate Haqqani Network as Terror Group
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor,
   The official recognition  of the Haqqani network as a terrorist
organization may not, as you note, "[H]amper...the group’s ability to
raise money from wealthy private donors in Persian Gulf countries" But
our law restricts not only money, but "material support". That would
invite an investigation of general Ashfaq Kayani's ongoing
relationship to the Haqqanis going back to his days as head of the
ISI.  It would be awkward to discover that our key ally in the region
is a "state sponsor of terror".
Barry Haskell Levine