Sirajuddin Haqqani, recently appointed acting Minister of the Interior TalibanGovernment, wanted for questioning FBI, And the U.S. State Department offered a reward of 10 million U.S. dollars to provide information about his arrest.
The Haqqani network headed by Haqqani is a designated foreign terrorist organization, and it is illegal for Americans to join or assist. Haqqani’s militant group belongs to the Taliban and is regarded by the US government as “the deadliest and most sophisticated insurgent organization.”
A FBI poster stated that Haqqani was wanted in connection with the attack on a hotel in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in January 2008. Six people were killed in the attack, including an American. The FBI also believes that Haqqani “coordinated and participated in the cross-border attack on the US coalition forces in Afghanistan.”
“It is said that Haqqani was also involved in the plan to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2008,” poster Said.
In order to exchange information that led to the arrest of Haqqani, the Judicial Incentive Program, the State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Incentive Program, supply Up to 10 million U.S. dollars. A poster on the FBI website rated the bounty as high as $5 million.
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Weekly newspaper I contacted the Justice Rewards Program to comment on the rewards for Haqqani information, but did not receive a timely response.
Haqqani’s father, Jalaludin Haqqani, founded the Haqqani Network and later formed an alliance with the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), as a well-known associate of Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, Jalaluddin is considered bin Laden’s “closest mentor” during his “growth period” in the 1980s “one.
DNI attributed the attack on the InterContinental Hotel in Kabul in June 2011 and the suicide bombings at the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 and 2009 to the Haqqani factions. The organization also carried out a “one-day attack” on the US Embassy in Kabul, the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, and the Presidential Palace in Afghanistan in September 2011.
According to the Afghan National Intelligence Agency, Afghan security forces also discovered a truck bomb deployed by the Haqqani faction in 2013, which contained 61,500 pounds of explosives, making it “the largest truck bomb ever.”
According to the Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said when announcing the formation of the cabinet on Tuesday that these appointments were only for the interim government, although he did not provide details on how long members will serve.
Other cabinet members include Mullah Hassan Ahund, who led the Taliban government in the last few years of the 1990s, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who signed an agreement with the United States to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Ahund will serve as interim prime minister, and Baradar will be one of his two deputies.
Muhammad Yaqub, the son of Taliban founder Mohamed Omar, will serve as acting defense minister.
Although the Taliban vowed that their takeover would be different from the way they ruled in the 1990s, their rhetoric seemed inconsistent with their actions, which sparked criticism of the suppression of women’s rights, journalists, and those allied with the former Afghan government. No women or non-Taliban figures were appointed as interim cabinet members on Tuesday.
