{"id":727417,"date":"2021-09-07T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=727417"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:06:23","slug":"taliban-names-fbi-wanted-alleged-terror-leader-as-afghan-interior-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-names-fbi-wanted-alleged-terror-leader-as-afghan-interior-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Names FBI-Wanted Alleged Terror Leader As Afghan Interior Minister"},"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\">20<\/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-names-fbi-wanted-alleged-terror-leader-as-afghan-interior-minister%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=727417&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234894452.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban announced \u201cthe formation of a hardline interim government for Afghanistan\u201d on Tuesday, per CNN, and among the top ministers is the FBI-wanted alleged terror leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the Taliban- and al Qaeda-aligned Haqqani network and a State Department \u201cspecially designated global terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, a long-time Taliban member who has been [the] leader of the group\u2019s Shura or Leadership Council for about two decades, was named as prime minister. He is seen as an influential and respected on the religious side of the movement, rather than on its military side,\u201d CNN reported. Not a single female leader was among those appointed, despite the Taliban\u2019s reported newfound commitment to women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo senior figures in the Haqqani Network, a US-designated terror group aligned with the Taliban and al Qaeda, will be in in the interim government. Both have been sanctioned by the United Nations and the US,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>Sirajuddin Haqqani is the Haqqani Network\u2019s leader, CNN noted, and he is joined by his uncle, Khalil Haqqani, who was appointed \u201cacting minister of refugees,\u201d though it is not clear whether that refers to incoming or outgoing Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>Sirajuddin Haqqani is wanted by both the FBI and the United States State Department, and he has a $5 million bounty from the U.S. State Department on his head, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/terrorinfo\/sirajuddin-haqqani\">according to the FBI\u2019s \u201cMost Wanted<\/a>\u201d page, &nbsp;which still lists his whereabouts as largely unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to the arrest of Sirajuddin Haqqani,\u201d the site reads. \u201cHaqqani is thought to stay in Pakistan, specifically the Miram Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan, area. He is reportedly a senior leader of the Haqqani network and maintains close ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Haqqani is a specially designated global terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSirajuddin Haqqani is wanted for questioning in connection with the January 2008 attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed six people, including an American citizen. He is believed to have coordinated and participated in cross-border attacks against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Haqqani also allegedly was involved in the planning of the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2008,\u201d the FBI noted.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-taliban-ruled-afghanistan-al-qaeda-linked-haqqani-network-rises-to-power-11629990056\">Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> in late August that the Haqqani Network, which is connected to Al Qaeda and has been a U.S.-designated terror network since 2012, has risen to prominence inside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the single most impressive nonstate militant group I have ever seen, with the exception of ISIS in the first two years of the caliphate,\u201d one counter-terrorism expert told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts who have followed the group for years worry that its consolidation of power will enable the kind of transnational terrorism that the U.S.-led invasion of 2001 aimed to eradicate,\u201d the Wall Street Journal noted. \u201cThe network\u2019s de facto leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin, worked closely with Osama bin Laden\u2019s top lieutenant and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, according to files recovered in bin Laden\u2019s compound in Pakistan. Today, Sirajuddin is the Taliban\u2019s military chief, and his forces have been put in charge of security in Kabul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WSJ noted that experts also believe that the Haqqani Network may be the bridge that links the Islamic State and the Taliban, two networks which the Biden administration \u2014 and President Joe Biden, specifically \u2014 have insisted are at odds.&nbsp;The Haqqani network is also, reportedly, inextricably linked to Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghan officials have for years accused the Haqqani network of facilitating deadly attacks on civilians by providing Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate with technical assistance and access to criminal networks in Kabul, even though Islamic State and the mainstream Taliban are sworn enemies,\u201d the WSJ said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban announced \u201cthe formation of a hardline interim government for Afghanistan\u201d on Tuesday, per CNN, and among the top ministers is the FBI-wanted alleged terror leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-727417","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\/727417","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727417\/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=727417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}