 - Khalil Haqqani
...more fully Khalil ur Rahman Haqqani, 55, brother step-brother of the formerly living Haqqani Network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani. Among other accomplishments, the US Treasury Delartment named him a Specially Designated Global Terrorist a decade ago, with a $5 million bounty on his head. He’s the Haqqani/Taliban moneybags, travelling the Ummah fundraising from the Gulf States and sources in South and East Asia, and between trips relaxing by commanding cadres back home doing the usual fun jihadi activities. Upon the fall of Kabul, he took on the city security portfolio... |
is the self-proclaimed head of security at Kabul airport, where suicide blast killed at least 170
- Along with nephews Sirajuddin
| ... current Talib #2/military chief, he has a $10 million bounty on his head... |
and Anas,
| ...27, he was supposedly an innocent college boy and poet when he was arrested for having evil playmates, then released because he was needed as a Taliban negotiator in Qatar. Now that that farce is over, it’s time for him to set his hand to serious work... |
he runs Haqqani network - a terror group that is part of the Taliban
- Unlike much of the Taliban which is opposed to ISIS, Haqqani network has cooperated with them in the past
- Khalil is likely to be near top of a US list of suspects for Thursday's attack, amid questions about how the ISIS bomber was able to get past Taliban checkpoints before detonating his device
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