{"id":726929,"date":"2021-09-07T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=726929"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:21:14","slug":"taliban-taps-terrorist-wanted-by-fbi-for-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-taps-terrorist-wanted-by-fbi-for-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Taps Terrorist Wanted by FBI for New Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-taps-terrorist-wanted-by-fbi-for-new-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=726929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.100323624595\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Sirajuddin Haqqani has $5 million bounty for killing a U.S. citizen in 2008<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-736x491-1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235104360-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTaliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addresses a press conference in Kabul on September 7, 2021. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 September 7, 2021 1:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"62.697547683924\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A Taliban spokesman on Tuesday announced the appointment of a terrorist on the FBI&#8217;s most-wanted list to a cabinet-level position in its new government.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is a senior leader in the al Qaeda-aligned Haqqani network of terror groups, will serve in the Taliban\u2019s government as minister of the interior. He is wanted by federal authorities for his involvement in a 2008 bombing in Kabul that killed Thor Hesla, a U.S. citizen. The State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/terrorinfo\/sirajuddin-haqqani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is offering<\/a> up to $5 million for information leading to Haqqani&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Haqqani authored an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/20\/opinion\/taliban-afghanistan-war-haqqani.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em> in February 2020, which expressed the demands of the Taliban ahead of talks with U.S. officials in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Taliban leader said his organization would work to protect human rights for all Afghans and work toward &#8220;mutual respect&#8221; with foreign powers. The claims run counter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2021\/08\/afghanistan-taliban-responsible-for-brutal-massacre-of-hazara-men-new-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> of atrocities the Taliban have committed against Afghans, many of whom assisted the United States during its 20-year war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Haqqani&#8217;s op-ed ran four months before a now-infamous <em>New York Times<\/em> editorial by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) that argued federal forces should be deployed to quell violence and restore order in America&#8217;s cities during the summer&#8217;s riots. Whereas some employees said Cotton&#8217;s views put black journalists at the newspaper &#8220;in danger,&#8221; no <em>Times<\/em> employees said publishing a known terrorist&#8217;s words in their opinion pages put any subgroup of U.S. citizens at risk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">United Nations-sanctioned terrorist Mohammad Hasan Akhund will lead the newly installed Taliban government. A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitycouncilreport.org\/atf\/cf\/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D\/s_2020_415_e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the United Nations Security Council said the Taliban\u2019s senior council of 20 members\u2014including Akhund\u2014maintained close ties with al Qaeda during negotiations with the West.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Sirajuddin Haqqani has $5 million bounty for killing a U.S. citizen in 2008  Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addresses a press conference in Kabul on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}