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November 15, 2011 Special Dispatch No.4286 In Audio Interview, Sirajuddin Haqqani Says Haqqani Network is Not Separate from the Taliban, Offers of Peace Talks are Aimed at Dividing the Mujahideen Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of the Afghan High Peace Council (which was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to hold peace talks with the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan), was assassinated by a Taliban suicide bomber at his home in Kabul on September 20, 2011. Rabbani's assassination came barely a week after the September 13 terror attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart of Kabul. Admiral Mike Mullen has accused the ISI of supporting the Taliban's Haqqani Network in carrying out the attack on the U.S. Embassy. The Taliban groups are part of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by Mullah Omar. The full text of this report is available to MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Subscribers. Subscription information is available at this link. JTTM subscribers can visit this page to view the report.