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Haqqani, the former ambassador who is now director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute, writes in Foreign Affairs that "Islamist extremism has already divided Pakistani society along sectarian lines, and the ascendance of Afghan Islamists next door will only embolden radicals at home." Investigations What Might Happen To Guantánamo Now That U.S. While in recent months, several experts have weighed in, suggesting that such a concern about terrorists is overwrought, there's no guarantee that Afghanistan wouldn't once again become a safe haven for terrorists - either those intent on doing harm to the U.S. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was the Taliban refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden - considered by Washington to be an international fugitive. The casus belli for the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. A Taliban regime could again become a safe haven for extremists assassinated for the last year," he says. are suddenly finding themselves the subject of Taliban reprisals. Bush's administration, told NPR's Morning Edition on Friday that "thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of Afghans" who believed in the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan during President George W. They have been blowing up hospitals and infrastructure," he warns. So far, in the areas of the country where they have regained control, the Taliban "have been executing people summarily, they have been lashing women, they have been shutting down schools. There's no reason to think that a new Taliban regime won't be another humanitarian eyesore, Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., tells NPR. World A Quarter-Million People Have Fled Their Homes As Violence In Afghanistan Escalates