The Taliban has selected a designated terrorist, who the U.S. government has placed a $5 million bounty on, to be Afghanistan’s new interior minister.
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The Taliban has selected a designated terrorist, who the U.S. government has placed a $5 million bounty on, to be Afghanistan’s new interior minister. Sirajuddin Haqqani “is head of the militant group known as the Haqqani network who are affiliated with the Taliban and have been behind some of the deadliest attacks in the country’s two-decade-long war – including a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than 150 people,” the BBC reported. “Unlike the wider Taliban, the Haqqani network has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US. It also maintains close ties to al-Qaeda.” The FBI says that Sirajuddin 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,” the FBI added. “Haqqani also allegedly was involved in the planning of the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2008.
