The Taliban’s new self-proclaimed chief of security in Kabul is someone who was designated a terrorist by the U.S. government 10 years ago and is subject to a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
published Sunday that the Taliban was working to restore order in Afghanistan.Those assurances were called into question by what a Pentagon spokesman called a"complex" bombing attack outside Kabul airport Thursday that caused an undetermined number of American and Afghan casualties.
Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani is wanted by the U.S., which offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.U.S. officials suspect the bombing was carried out by ISIS-K, a splinter group that is a bitter Taliban rival. The attack raises questions about the Taliban's capacity to police the capital.
In their push to retake Afghanistan, the Taliban made the security situation much more precarious by breaking prisoners out of prisons — including hard-core fighters housed at Bagram Air Base, Taliban officials acknowledged to NBC News. Two Taliban leaders said in an interview that their biggest blunder was “releasing thousands of prisoners, among them hard-core Islamic State commanders, master trainers and bomb makers. They were very trained people and they are now organizing themselves.”The Taliban itself was never designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, but the Haqqani network, which has close ties to al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence, has long held that distinction.
The Haqqani network, which officials say functions like an organized crime family, has been blamed for the kidnapping of several Americans as part of a wide-ranging kidnap-for-ransom business.
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